Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/267730 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IDOS Discussion Paper No. 21/2022
Publisher: 
German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), Bonn
Abstract: 
The worldwide wave of autocratization is doing away with many of the democratic achievements made since 1989. Scholarship on international democracy promotion is yet to theorise how democracy can be protected from autocratization. Such a theory must account for different democratic and autocratic trajectories as well as integrate theoretical approaches from international relations and comparative politics in the study of democracy promotion. However, such a combined perspective is still missing. One reason for this is that the field lacks a clear concept of "protection" and does not yet systematically integrate evidence from democratization research. This paper addresses this research gap. It is the first attempt to develop a concept theory of democracy promotion, which includes support and protection of democracy. Coupling this with a depiction of six phases of regime change, this paper makes a second contribution: based on the proposed conceptual and theoretical integration, it generates a series of testable anchor points for further empirical analysis on what strategies are most likely to be effective during the various phases of regime change.
Subjects: 
democracy promotion
democratization
autocratization
concept-formation
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ISBN: 
978-3-96021-200-3
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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