000840068 000__ 03821cam\a2200433\a\4500 000840068 001__ 840068 000840068 005__ 20210515151515.0 000840068 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000840068 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun 000840068 008__ 110201s2011\\\\enka\\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\d 000840068 010__ $$z 2011003650 000840068 020__ $$z9781107006850 000840068 020__ $$z9780521187251 000840068 020__ $$z9781139091268$$q(electronic book) 000840068 035__ $$a(MiAaPQ)EBC713041 000840068 035__ $$a(Au-PeEL)EBL713041 000840068 035__ $$a(CaPaEBR)ebr10476475 000840068 035__ $$a(CaONFJC)MIL319333 000840068 035__ $$a(OCoLC)735595666 000840068 040__ $$aMiAaPQ$$cMiAaPQ$$dMiAaPQ 000840068 043__ $$aee-----$$ae-ur--- 000840068 050_4 $$aJN96.A58$$bB876 2011 000840068 1001_ $$aBunce, Valerie,$$d1949- 000840068 24510 $$aDefeating authoritarian leaders in postcommunist countries$$h[electronic resource] /$$cValerie Bunce, Sharon Wolchik. 000840068 260__ $$aCambridge :$$bCambridge University Press,$$c2011. 000840068 300__ $$axi, 373 p. :$$bill. 000840068 4901_ $$aCambridge studies in contentious politics 000840068 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000840068 5058_ $$aMachine generated contents note: Part I. The Puzzle: 1. Breakthrough elections: mixed regimes, democracy assistance, and international diffusion; 2. Electoral stability and change in mixed regimes; Part II. Case Studies: 3. The 1998 election in Slovakia and the 2000 election in Croatia: model solidifies and is transferred; 4. Defeating a dictator at the polls and in the streets: the 2000 Yugoslav election; 5. Ukraine: the orange revolution; 6. Georgia and Kyrgyzstan: fraudulent parliamentary elections, mass protests, and presidential abdications; 7. Failed cases: Armenia, Azerbaijan and Belarus; Part III. Comparative Analyses: 8. Explaining divergent electoral outcomes: regime strength, international democracy assistance, and electoral dynamics; 9. The electoral model: evolution and elements; 10. The cross-national diffusion of democratizing elections; 11. After the elections: explaining divergent regime trajectories; 12. Conclusions: democratizing elections, international diffusion and U.S. democracy assistance. 000840068 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000840068 520__ $$a"From 1998 to 2005, six elections took place in postcommunist Europe and Eurasia that had the surprising outcome of empowering the opposition and defeating authoritarian incumbents or their designated successors. Valerie J. Bunce and Sharon L. Wolchik compare these unexpected electoral breakthroughs with one another and with elections that had the more typical result of maintaining authoritarian rule. They draw three conclusions. First, the opposition was victorious because of the hard and creative work of a transnational network composed of local opposition and civil society groups, members of the international democracy assistance community, and graduates of successful electoral challenges to authoritarian rule in other countries. Second, the remarkable run of these upset elections reflected the ability of this network to diffuse an ensemble of innovative electoral strategies across state boundaries. Finally, elections can serve as a powerful mechanism for democratic change. This is especially the case when civil society is strong, the transfer of political power is through constitutional means, and opposition leaders win with small mandates"--$$cProvided by publisher. 000840068 650_0 $$aDemocracy$$zFormer communist countries. 000840068 650_0 $$aAuthoritarianism$$zFormer communist countries. 000840068 651_0 $$aFormer communist countries$$xPolitics and government. 000840068 7001_ $$aWolchik, Sharon L. 000840068 830_0 $$aCambridge studies in contentious politics. 000840068 852__ $$bebk 000840068 85640 $$3ProQuest Ebook Central Academic Complete$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=713041$$zOnline Access 000840068 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:840068$$pGLOBAL_SET 000840068 980__ $$aEBOOK 000840068 980__ $$aBIB 000840068 982__ $$aEbook 000840068 983__ $$aOnline