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2021-2022 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

PSC 369 - Transition to Democracy

Credits 3
Lecture / 3 hours per week
Requirements: Prerequisite: PSC 151 or permission of instructor
Transitions from non-democratic to democratic regimes in three major areas of the world, Southern Europe, the Soviet Union and East-Central Europe, and South America, from a comparative theoretical perspective. Theoretical problems include what democracy is and is not, democratic transition and democratic consolidation, how and why transitions to democracy have occurred, and factors that influence the success or failure of democratization.
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