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Globalization and Democracy

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Global contributions to regime shifts; International influence on national political regimes; International impacts on national forms of representation; Political regime changes from an international perspective

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Democracy is one of several political forms that link civil society and the state. This essay focuses on the role of global dynamics in the emergence of democratic regimes. Conceptualizing globalization in historical terms offers the possibility of describing democratic transitions including those from: monarchies, oligarchies, fascism, bureaucratic authoritarianism, colonialism, and socialism. This far from exhausts the scholarship on democracy, but due to space constraints, this essay excludes work on democratic collapses and coup d’états, as well as extensions of rights and franchise to citizens previously excluded on the basis of property restrictions, race, or sex. Likewise, the myriad “types/definitions/measurements” of democracy are omitted. In...

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  1. School of Sociology and Center for Latin American Studies, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA

    Kathleen C. Schwartzman

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  1. Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA

    Ali Farazmand

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Schwartzman, K.C. (2017). Globalization and Democracy. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_1293-1

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    Globalization and Democracy
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_1293-2

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