Aspects of the Orange Revolution. Vol. 6. Post-communist democratic revolutions in comparative perspective.

Sonst. Personen	Kuzio, Taras (Hrsg.)
Titel	Aspects of the Orange Revolution. Vol. 6. Post-communist democratic revolutions in comparative perspective. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Postkommunistische demokratische Revolutionen in vergleichender Perspektive.
Quelle	(2007), 211 S.Verfügbarkeit
Reihe	Soviet and post-soviet politics and society. 68
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
ISSN	1614-3515
ISBN	978-3-89821-820-7
Schlagwörter	Gesellschaft; Erfolg; Misserfolg; Jugend; Demokratisierung; Entwicklungsland; Nachfolgestaat; Nachsozialistische Gesellschaft; Revolution; Transformation; Zivilgesellschaft; Internationaler Vergleich; Mobilisierung; Georgien; Kroatien; Naher Osten; Serbien; Slowakei; Sowjetunion; Ukraine; Zentralasien
Abstract	"Post-communist democratic revolutions have, so far, taken place in six countries: Slovakia (1998), Croatia (1999-2000), Serbia (2000), Georgia (2003), Ukraine (2004) and Kyrgyzstan (2005). The seven chapters in this volume situate these events within a theoretical and comparative perspective. The volume draws upon extensive experience and field research conducted by political scientists specializing in comparative democratization, regime politics, political transitions, electoral studies, and the post-communist world. The papers by Valerie Bunce and Sharon Wolchik, Henry Hale, Paul D'Anieri, David R. Marples, Taras Kuzio, Lucan A. Way and Steven Levitsky, as well as Anika Locke Binnendijk and Ivan Marovic explore different regime types and opposition strategies in post-communist states, the diffusion of opposition strategies between states in which democratic revolutions were attempted, the strategic importance of youth NGO's in mobilizing oppositions towards democratic revolutions, the use of non-violent strategies by the opposition, path dependent, theoretical and comparative explanations of the sources of successful and failed democratic revolutions, and the factors that lie behind divergent postrevolutionary trajectories. The volume represents a breakthrough in our understanding of why and how democratic revolutions take place in the post-communist world. It provides an integrated analysis of why such upheavals succeed in some, but fail in other states. The contributions point to, among other issues, why the post-revolutionary breakthroughs in Serbia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan have encountered obstacles, the ousted regime was never fully defeated and its representatives were able to launch counter-revolutions, as well as why, in Serbia and Ukraine, the political forces of the ousted regimes have returned to power in free elections held alter democratic revolutions. 'Post communist democratic revolutions in comparative perspective' will be important reading for scholars and policy makers alike." (author's abstract). Contents: Valerie Bunce, Sharon Wolchik: International Diffusion and Postcommunist Electoral Revolutions (7-38); Henry E. Hale: Democracy or Autocracy on the March? The Colored Revolutions as Normal Dynamics of Patronal Presidentialism (39-74); Paul D'Anieri: Explaining the Success and Failure of Post-Communist Revolutions (75-102); David R. Marples: Color Revolutions: The Belarus Case (103-122); Taras Kuzio: Civil Society, Youth and Societal Mobilization in Democratic Revolutions (123-152); Lucan A. Way, Steven Levitsky: The Dynamics of Autocratic Coercive Capacity after the Cold War (153-186); Anika Locke Binnendijk, Ivan Marovic: Power and Persuasion: Nonviolent Strategies to Influence State Security Forces in Serbia (2000) and Ukraine (2004) (187-211).
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2009/1