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Elites and democratic transitions by regime transformation in Southern Europe / Ioannis Tzortzis.

9783031046209 (electronic bk.)
303104620X (electronic bk.)
9783031046193
3031046196

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.

English

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10.1007/978-3-031-04620-9 doi

JN40

320.94

This book examines three cases of democratic transitions by self-transformation of the non-democratic regimes in Southern Europethe Spanish reforma pactada-ruptura pactada of 1976-77, the Greek "Markezinis experiment" of 1973, and the Turkish democratic transition of 1983in a comparative perspective. The author argues that a democratic transition initiated by the regime elites is, in contrast to widely held assumptions and notwithstanding some reservations on whether democracy can be (re-)introduced by non-democrats, worth viewing as a "window of opportunity" for democratisation. It is up to the democratic counter-elites to respond to it, using the civil society and the international factor as allies to achieve their goal of acquiring more concessions from the regime. Ioannis Tzortis is Teaching Fellow in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK.

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Global political transitions.

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