___________ ___________ ________ have shorter lifespans than one-party states but live longer than military ones.
What is Competitive authoritarian regimes?
People Bellin says would naturally support regimes because they benefit directly from government subsidies
What is business owners?
As a nation industrializes and grows economically it will inevitably lead to democracy.
What is the Modernization Theory?
Places where democracies tend to fail
What is poorer countries?
Bellin states this group of people championed democratization in Western Europe
What is the working class?
Elections exist, but the government unfairly uses its power to ensure a parties victory.
What is Competitive Authoritarianism?
There is substantial evidence to prove that high inequality leads to the demise of democracy.
What is False?
What Bellin states can sway powerful people to oppose or support democratization
What is Economic interests?
Citizens form labor unions and community organizations to protest against an authoritarian government. According to Haggard and Kaufman, how do these organizations help democratization?
They strengthen civil society and collective action by helping citizens organize and demand political change.
What Haggard and Kauffman found out about many countries that transitioned into democracies
What is unsustainability?
People directly under the authoritarian that fear democratization heavily because of taxation and loss of power.
What is wealthy elites?
Reaching democratization through a different combination of means. Ex. mass mobilization or economic or political conditions.
Alternative pathways/equifinality/combination of causal factors.