De la transition à la consolidation. Une lecture rétrospective des democratization studies

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ID4468299
AuthorsNicolas Guilhot (0000-0003-2266-4134), Philippe C Schmitter
Year2000
Volume50
Issue4
Pages615-632
Publication date2000-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevue française de science politique (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0035-2950 • E-ISSN: 1950-6686
PublisherPERSEE Program (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3406/rfsp.2000.395500
OpenAlexW2016471278
LanguageFR
Citations received13

From transition to consolidation. a retrospective discussion of democratization studies. The paper argues that the concepts of transition and consolidation, which have oriented the body of scholarly work know as democratization studies, do not form a unified and coherent theoretical framework. In particular, the concept of consolidation can be traced to a variety of modernization theories that emphasized the maintenance of social consensus and the stability of political order, while the concept of transition is related to a theory of action. These divergent concerns - the former with order, the latter with change - can in turn be related to respective differences in their treatment of the concept of regime. The resulting theories of transition to democracy have tended to promote a model of change that is immediatly limited by the concept of consolidation. In this article, an attempt is made at reformulating these notions to allow for a broader, more dynamic and less intrinsically conservative understanding of democratization processes and their outcome

Consolidation (business) · Democracy · Democratic consolidation · Democratization · Economics · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Transition (genetics) · Chemistry · French Urban and Social Studies · Law · Philosophy · Social Sciences and Governance

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