| ID | 107445 |
| Title Proper | Does forced democratization work? |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Walker, Scott |
| Publication | 2011. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Over the past seven decades, democratic powers, led by the United States,
have attempted to bring about democracy through external military imposition.
While research to date has generally pointed toward the conclusion that
such efforts are often not successful in effecting full-fledged democracy,
studies almost exclusively have focused on how interventions have affected
institutional measures of democracy in target countries (as opposed to
political rights or political competitiveness). In addition, such studies have
not recognized that there is more than one way to denote a democratizing
intervention. I find that, regardless of what measure of democracy one uses,
attempts to force democracy are generally not successful. However, "success"
also depends to a degree upon how one chooses to define attempts at forced
democratization. This research reinforces existing research, indicating that
democratizing interventions are rarely found to result in healthy consolidated
democracies over the long term. |
| `In' analytical Note | Taiwan Democracy Quarterly Vol. 7, No.1; Jul 2011: p.73-94 |
| Journal Source | Taiwan Democracy Quarterly Vol. 7, No.1; Jul 2011: p.73-94 |
| Key Words | Democracy ; Intervention ; Foreign Policy ; Military |