Transitology explains the different pathways to and from democracy as explained in the Massive Open Online Course
MOOC on Transitology set up by
Anja Mihr and launched by the Global Campus for Human Rights . In this training course Transitology is explained as a concept and analytical framework applied in political and social science to analyse political regime change in either ways, democratic or autocratic. Successful democratic transition, is one pathway how democratic institutions slowly consolidate and strengthen over time. Transitology also explains why weak and corrupted democratic institutions fail and backslide into authoritarian political practices and, subsequently, autocracies.
Philippe C. Schmitter, a key proposes on transitology and author of Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Tentative Conclusions About Uncertain Democracies (1986) with
Guillermo O'Donnell.[4]
Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize–winning economist and professor of economics at Columbia University.
Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute, Columbia University.
Seymour Martin Lipset, While Lipset did not study transitology directly, his theories on the role of economic development in the survival of democracy, first articulated in "Some Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic Development and Political Legitimacy, has been influential in the field.[5]
Thomas Carothers, also significant in the development of the concept of illiberal democracy and articulating the distinction between a consolidating democracy and an illiberal democracy.[7]
References
^Philippe C. Schmitter, "Reflections on "transitology" : before and after," pp. 71-86, in Daniel M. BRINKS, Marcelo LEIRAS and Scott MAINWARING (eds), Reflections on uneven democracies: the legacy of Guillermo O'Donnell. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
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^Rustow, D.A. (1970). Transitions to Democracy: Towards a Dynamic Model. Comparative Politics, 2(3), pp. 337–367.
^Guillermo O'Donnell & Philippe Schmitter. Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Tentative Conclusions about Uncertain Democracies (Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins UP, 1986).
^Lipset, Seymour Martin (March 1959). "Some Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic Development and Political Legitimacy". The American Political Science Review 53 (1): 69–105.
^Carothers, T. (2002). The end of the transition paradigm. Journal of Democracy, 13(1), 5-21.
^The End of the Transition Paradigm, Journal of Democracy, vol. 13, no 1, January 2002.