Reconsidering the “Transition Paradigm”

Issue Date January 2014
Volume 25
Issue 1
Page Numbers 86-100
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Four leading experts on democracy—Larry Diamond, Francis Fukuyama, Donald L. Horowitz, and Marc F. Plattner—discuss the relevance of the “transition paradigm” in light of the “Arab Spring” and other developments in the world today.

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