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Studies in Comparative International Development, 2001
The concept of democratic consolidation has become a pivotal concept in comparative politics. In its most widespread acceptation, a “consolidated” democracy is one that is unlikely to break down. For all its apparent thinness and simplicity, this conceptualization poses considerable problems of operationalization and measurement. As the article argues,
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Democratization and Consolidation of Democratic Institutions

2013
This chapter examines the relationship between democratization and the consolidation of democratic institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa. The key questions that it aims to address is what sustains democracy and what consolidates the democratic institutions recently established.
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Democratic Consolidation

2019
In this chapter, an empirical definition of the key notion that stresses how consolidation can be seen and analysed as a process and as a result is proposed, and the differences with stabilization and institutionalization are spelled out. Then, the key conditions of the phenomenon are discussed with regards to the exclusive and inclusive legitimations,
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Mexico’s Democratic Consolidation

2017
Politics of Democracy Why was the 2000 presidential race essential to Mexico’s democratization? Democratic theorists argue that one of the ultimate political tests of a democratic model is whether national elections result in an alternation of those in power, especially in the executive branch, where...
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