Democratization -- Adam Brown, BYU Political Science

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Summaries tagged Democratization

Bermeo: Ordinary people in extraordinary times
Bratton and Van de Walle: Democratic experiments in Africa
Collier: Paths toward democracy
Geddes: What do we know about democratization after 20 years
Geisler: Fair
Haggard and Kaufman: The political economy of democratic transitions
Hyde: Can international election observers deter fraud
Lehoucq and Molina: Stuffing the ballot box
Linz and Stepan: Problems of democratic transition and consolidation
Makumba: Zimbabwe's hijacked election
Moore: Social origins of dictatorship and democracy
O'Donnell: Illusions and conceptual flaws
Olson: Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development
Przeworski, Alvarez, Cheibub, and Limongi: Democracy and development
Przeworski, Alvarez, Cheibub, and Limongi: What makes democracies endure
Przeworski: Democracy and the market
Rigger: Machine politics in protracted transition in Taiwan
Rustow: Transitions to democracy
Snyder: From voting to violence
Wilkinson: Votes and violence

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This portion of my website (/notes/) is the site formerly known as wikisum.com. Many years ago, my friends in graduate school and I would routinely share our reading notes with one another. We all read each article, but we crowdsourced the responsibility of summarizing our readings. When we were preparing for our comprehensive exams, I collected many of these summaries from peers and imported them into a wiki (wikisummary, or wikisum), hoping it would take off and attract hordes of graduate students and political scientists interested in maintaining an up-to-date knowledge base of all political science has to offer. It turns out I was too optimistic. Hundreds of people read the summaries, but almost nobody contributed new ones. Eventually, I quit renewing the wikisum domain and converted the contents into this static website. The summaries grow more dated each year, but since they might still have some use, they're still here—even if the name "wikisum" has become a bit of a misnomer. Enjoy.