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dc.contributor.authorSCHNEIDER, Carsten Q.en
dc.date.accessioned2006-06-09T09:22:34Z
dc.date.available2006-06-09T09:22:34Z
dc.date.created2004en
dc.date.issued2004
dc.identifier.citationFlorence : European University Institute, 2004en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/5380
dc.descriptionDefence date: 22 September 2004
dc.descriptionExamining board: Prof. László Bruszt (EUI) ; Prof. Wolfgang Merkel (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin and Humboldt University) ; Prof. Charles C. Ragin (University of Arizona) ; Prof. Philippe C. Schmitter (EUI-Supervisor)
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dc.description.abstractThis dissertation investigates the successes and failures in consolidating those democratic regimes that emerged in Europe and Latin America in the last quarter of the 20th century. The theoretical approach developed combines the most prominent political-institutional and socio-structural approaches to explaining the Consolidation of Democracy (CoD). Reinterpreting conventional claims, Schneider 's comparative analyses of 32 countries indicates that the driving force behind CoD is the fit between the institutional type of democracy and the societal context in terms of power dispersion. This dissertation: presents new data measuring dimensions of regime transition processes in Latin America, the Middle East and Northern Africa, as well as some former Soviet republics; reassesses some core assumptions of the dominant transition paradigm; discusses general methodological issues involved when investigating causally complex claims in comparative social research and presents fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) as a valuable addition to the methodological tool kit of comparative social scientists. This innovative and important study will be of interest to political scientists, particularly those with an interest in democracy, democratization, comparative politics and comparative methodology.
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dc.publisherEuropean University Instituteen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEUIen
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dc.relation.ispartofseriesPhD Thesisen
dc.relation.hasversionhttp://hdl.handle.net/1814/19395
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dc.subject.lcshDemocracy -- Europe
dc.subject.lcshDemocracy -- Latin America
dc.titlePatterns of consolidated democracies : Europe and Latin America compareden
dc.typeThesisen
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