The sight of thousands of people demonstrating for clean elections and an end to corrupt
postcommunist regimes led many observers to declare that the so-called color revolutions …

From 1996 to 2005 a wave of electoral revolutions swept through east Central Europe, the
Balkans, and Soviet successor states. The success of these revolutions and their …

Way is correct that structural factors make competitive regimes more or less vulnerable, but
he ignores the durability of even very weak regimes. In the color revolutions, defeat occurred …

From the year 2000, a series of mass demonstrations occurred in post-socialist Eurasian
countries. Thousands of citizens took to the streets and squares, waving banners and flags …

For several years in the first decade of the twenty-first century, roughly 2003–2005, many in
the West believed that freedom was advancing and that the promise of post-Soviet …

Between 2000 and 2005, colour revolutions swept away authoritarian and semiauthoritarian
regimes in Serbia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine. Yet, after these initial successes …

Abstract Analysis of the second wave of democratic transition in Eastern and Central
Europe's “color revolutions” has tended to focus on causal variables such as regional …

The years since 2000 have seen a surprising new wave of democratic breakthroughs in the
postcommunist countries of Serbia, Georgia, and Ukraine. This article compares and …

THE Ukrainian run-off presidential elections of No-vember 21 and December 26, 2004, had
a profound impact on orthodox assumptions underpinning the expected patterns of political …

Elections are both the embodiment of democracy and a potentially destructive force in the
state. The 1992 election in Czechoslovakia illustrates how elections can exacerbate the …