Transitions from Postcommunism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6286364 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Mcfaul (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 5-19 |
| Publication date | 2005-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of democracy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1045-5736 • E-ISSN: 1086-3214 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jod.2005.0049 |
| OpenAlex | W2091934346 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 108 |
| References cited | 6 |
The years since 2000 have seen a surprising new wave of democratic breakthroughs in the postcommunist countries of Serbia, Georgia, and Ukraine. This article compares and contrasts these three cases, naming seven common factors which made the breakthroughs in these countries possible: 1) a semi-autocratic rather than fully autocratic regime; 2) an unpopular incumbent; 3) a united and organized opposition; 4) an ability quickly to drive home the point that voting results were falsified, 5) enough independent media to inform citizens about the falsified vote, 6) a political opposition capable of mobilizing tens of thousands or more demonstrators to protest electoral fraud, and 7) divisions among the regime's coercive forces
Autocracy · Democracy · Democratization · Opposition (politics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Turnout · Voting · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics
Rusia a lo largo de los mandatos presidenciales de George W. Bush y Putin
Self-Enforcing Democracy
Protest, Social Movements and Global Democracy Since 2011
The Street and the Ballot Box
Template Revolutions
Główne podejścia teoretyczne do analizy „kolorowych rewolucji” na obszarze postradzieckim
Bottom‐up or top‐down
Religiosity in the South Caucasus
On Revolutions
How Dictatorships Work
Advancing the freedom agenda
In-between anarchy and interdependence
Social Media and EuroMaidan
With the Rise of China, What’s New for Comparative Politics
The Contribution of Social Movement Theory to Understanding Terrorism
Democratic Revolutions from a Different Angle
Defending the watchdogs
Cultural Identifications, Political Representations and National Project(s) on the Symbolic Arena of the Orange Revolution
From prosecution to persecution
Roses and Tulips
Rethinking Revolutions
How Increased Competition Can Strengthen Electoral Authoritarianism
Regionally Distinct Post-Socialist Leaders
Civil society, youth and societal mobilization in democratic revolutions
Nationalism and authoritarianism in Russia
Nationalism, identity and civil society in Ukraine
In search of a theoretical approach to the analysis of the ‘Colour revolutions’
To Resign or Not to Resign
Cherry Picking EU Conditionality
Co-optation or Empowerment? The Fate of Pro-Democracy NGOs after the Rose Revolution
Justice Imposed
Minority Political Inclusion in Mikheil Saakashvili's Georgia
Balancing National Uncertainty and Foreign Orientation
Between Europe and the Past—Collective Identification and Diffusion of Student Contention to and from Serbia
From Balcony to Barricade
The Use of Information and Communication Technologies by Protesters and the Authorities in the Attempts at Colour Revolutions in Belarus 2001–2010
European Regional Organizations, Political Conditionality, and Democratic Transformation in Eastern Europe
The More Fragmented the Better?—The Impact of Armed Forces Structure on Defection during Nonviolent Popular Uprisings
Situating the ‘Tulip Revolution’
The dangers of reform
The legitimacy of foreign intervention in elections
Fear of democracy or revolution
A Win-Win U.S. Strategy for Dealing with Iran
Ukraine Imports Democracy
The Threat of Selective Democracy. Popular Dissatisfaction and Exclusionary Strategy of Elites in East Central and Southeastern Europe
Misruling the Masses
Sequential Requisites Analysis
The limits of modern revolutions
Regime Cycles
Trends and Patterns in Electoral Malpractice in Post-Soviet Eurasia
The European Union's Relations with Ukraine and Azerbaijan
Moldova Between Europe and Russia
Are Elections Mechanisms of Authoritarian Stability or Democratization? Evidence from Postcommunist Eurasia
Caught between stability and democracy in the Western Balkans
No more colour! Authoritarian regimes and colour revolutions in Eurasia
The interplay of domestic contexts and external democracy promotion
Armed opposition in wartime Russia
Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy
Are Central Asian Leaders Learning from Upheavals in Kyrgyzstan
Deerminants of watchdog journalism
Gender-Imbalanced Well-Being
Defeating Dictators
Assaults on the Fourth Estate
Hidden in plain sight
Long Soviet shadows
Did Russia (Nearly) have a Facebook Revolution in 2011? Social Media's Challenge to Authoritarianism
Is government contestability an integral part of the definition of democracy
Linkage to the West and Electoral Manipulation
A Double-Edge Sword? Mass Media and Nonviolent Dissent in Autocracies
Beyond Patronage
Fiddling while Democracy Burns
Enough! Electoral Fraud, Collective Action Problems, and Post-Communist Colored Revolutions
The Moderation Theory Revisited
Origins of the movement’s strategy
Alternative framing
Armies and Revolutions
The Real Causes of the Color Revolutions
New Threats to Freedom
Favorable Conditions and Electoral Revolutions
The Surprising Instability of Competitive Authoritarianism
Crowdsourcing election monitoring in the 2011–2012 Russian elections
Guns, roses and democratization
From neo-corporatism to delegative corporatism? Empowerment of NGOs during early democratization
New version of the Kirkpatrick doctrine in the post-Soviet space
Russia and the colour revolutions
Oil in the family
Democracy promotion before and after the ‘colour revolutions
Network Ties and the Politics of Renationalization
The Price of Collaboration
Overestimation of the Level of Democracy Among Citizens in Nondemocracies
The Consequences of the Internet for Politics
Color revolutions
Soviet conspiracy theories and political culture in Ukraine
A game-theoretic model for protest in the context of post-communism
Explaining the success and failure of post-communist revolutions
Elections, Succession, and Legitimacy in Ukraine
State-led violence in Ukraine’s 2004 elections and orange revolution
Democracy or autocracy on the march? The colored revolutions as normal dynamics of patronal presidentialism
International diffusion and postcommunist electoral revolutions
Survival of the fittest
| Unique citing works | 108 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,14 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2026 (22) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 107 |