Research Article

Rethinking the Transition to Democracy in the Cases of Military Rule, Religion and Economic Development

Volume: 13 Number: 4 December 20, 2021
EN TR

Rethinking the Transition to Democracy in the Cases of Military Rule, Religion and Economic Development

Abstract

Studies of democratization have developed and have become increasingly more sophisticated across the past 20 years as a result of new datasets being completed and shared. Scholars have written widely on the subject and have offered explanations of transitions to democracy, but some of these explanations are incoherent with others. This paper offers a discussion of a variety of conditions which provide fertile soil for transitions to democracy, ranging from military rule and religion to economic development. Addressing this contestation, the paper argues that there is no single explanation for the transition to democracy and that it requires very sophisticated thinking to determine the conditions for democratization.

Keywords

References

  1. Acemoglu, D., & Robinson, J.A. (2006). Economic origins of dictatorship and democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. Barany, Z.D. (2015). Exits from Military Rule: Lessons for Burma. Journal of Democracy. 26(2), 86-100.
  3. Boix, C. (2011). Democracy, Development, and the International System. American Political Science Review. 105(4), 809-828.
  4. Bunce, V. (2000). Comparative democratization – Big and bounded generalizations. Comparative Political Studies. 33(6-7), 703-734.
  5. Bunce, V. (2003). Rethinking Recent Democratization: Lessons from the Postcommunist Experience. World Politics. 55(2), 167-192.
  6. Chaturvedi, N.S,. & Montoya, O. (2013). Democracy, Oil or Religion? Expanding women’s rights in the muslim world. Politics and Religion. 6(3), 596-617.
  7. Diamond, L. (2010). Why Are There No Arab Democracies?. Journal of Democracy. 21(1), 93-104.
  8. el-Huesseini, R. (2016). Is gender the barrier to democracy? Women, Islam and the ‘Arab spring’. Contemporary Islam. 10(1), 53-66.

Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Political Science

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

December 20, 2021

Submission Date

March 26, 2021

Acceptance Date

October 2, 2021

Published in Issue

Year 1970 Volume: 13 Number: 4

APA
Bilici, İ. (2021). Rethinking the Transition to Democracy in the Cases of Military Rule, Religion and Economic Development. Aksaray Üniversitesi İktisadi Ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi, 13(4), 43-48. https://doi.org/10.52791/aksarayiibd.903726