External Influence and Democratization
Structure vs. Choice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6286753 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Steven Levitsky, Lucan A Way (0000-0001-9702-9034), Lucan Way |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 151-156 |
| Publication date | 2014-10-01 |
| 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.2014.0062 |
| OpenAlex | W2051500982 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
The essays by Ghia Nodia and Jakob Tolstrup suggest that our focus on the structural character of linkage and leverage needs to be tempered by greater attention to the role of leadership and contingency in the success of democracy in the former Soviet Union. While we agree that policy choice can sometimes affect democratization and the strength of ties to the West, it generally does so only within certain structural parameters. Leadership matters much less at the extremes of high and low linkage. And even in “faultline” cases such as Belarus and Ukraine, the impact of short-term or policy-driven shifts should not be overstated
Contingency · Democracy · Democratization · Development economics · Economic system · Economics · Epistemology · European union · International economics · Leverage (statistics · Linkage (software · Political economy · Political science · Positive economics · Resizing · Sociology · Soviet union · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · European Union Policy and Governance · Law
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |