Comparative Politics 101: Democratization in Ukraine?

.... Neither can it explain why Georgia, given its low GDP per capita levels, managed to sustain democracy, whereas much richer Ukraine failed. Modernization theory. Source: Acemoglu et al. 2008. Another strand of comparative politics literature ... ... "soft-liners" within an authoritarian regime. Though analytically rigorous (hence the widespread use of this framework by political economy scholars), "transitology" does not always fit into political scenarios we may witness these days. ...