Browsing Department of Political and Social Sciences (SPS) by Author "RITTER, Daniel P."

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    Title: Nationalism and Transitions: Mobilizing for democracy in Yugoslavia  Author(s): RITTER, Daniel P. Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS Abstract: The Yugoslav transition(s) to democracy is perhaps the most complex of all the Eastern European cases. It can be argued that Yugoslavia enjoyed the most favorable initial conditions of any country in the region: the regime ...
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    Title: Civil Society and the Velvet Revolution: Mobilizing for democracy in Czechoslovakia  Author(s): RITTER, Daniel P. Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS Abstract: In the late 1980s Czechoslovakia was considered one of the most repressive countries in Eastern Europe and a staunch Soviet ally. In the aftermath of the 'Prague Spring' of 1968, repressed with Soviet help, the regime ...
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    Title: Civil Society and the Paralyzed State: Mobilizing for democracy in East Germany  Author(s): RITTER, Daniel P. Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS Abstract: Among cases of transition to democracy from below, the East German one constitutes a particularly challenging puzzle. Whereas social movements taking advantage of an oppositional space within a repressive context have ...
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    Title: Reluctant Rulers and the Negotiated Transition: Mobilizing for democracy in Hungary  Author(s): RITTER, Daniel P. Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS Abstract: Among the Eastern European democratization processes of the 1989 period, Hungary stands out as the least dramatic transition in the region. Whereas other countries experienced massive demonstrations in favor of democratic ...
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    Title: On the Role of Strategy in Nonviolent Revolutionary Social Change: The Case of Iran, 1977-1979  Author(s): RITTER, Daniel P. Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Are revolutions made or do they come? This question is at the heart of revolution theory and has received plentiful attention from scholars. In this paper I suggest that adherence to this traditional dichotomy may not be ...