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Democratic Transitions: The Portuguese Case
Comparative Democratization and Peaceful Change in Single-Party-Dominant Countries, pp.119-136
Palgrave Macmillan US
01/01/2016
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Abstract
The Portuguese régime change from dictatorship to democracy, set in motion by the April 1974 military coup and finalized with the 1982 and 1989 constitutional amendments, offers clues for answering contested questions about transitions to democracy. Among those questions are the following: Are there socio-economic prerequisites for democracy? What conditions facilitate subordination of the military to the new democracy’s civilian authorities? Who are the parties to the agreement a democratic constitution represents? What is the relationship between market economy and democracy? What works best in new democracies: parliamentarism or presidentialism?
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- Title
- Democratic Transitions: The Portuguese Case
- Publication Details
- Comparative Democratization and Peaceful Change in Single-Party-Dominant Countries, pp.119-136
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US; New York
- Copyright
- © 1999 Marco Rimanelli
- Identifiers
- 99380171571406600
- Academic Unit
- College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities; Reubin O'D. Askew Department of Government
- Language
- English