Scholars, observing clustering in transitions to democracy, argue that democratization
diffuses across borders as citizens in autocracies demand the same reforms they witness in …

Abstract The December 2011 protests in Russia raised the question of whether the Putin
regime could fall to a “color” or electoral revolution like those that have ousted other …

Does democratization diffuse? For over two decades, numerous studies have asserted that
democratization diffuses across countries but recent research has challenged this claim …

Recent years have witnessed the diffusion of an influential literature on democratization.
Scholars, observing patterns of spatial and temporal clustering in the transition to …

Scholars, observing clustering in transitions to democracy, argue that democratization
diffuses across borders as citizens in autocracies demand the same reforms they witness in …

This thesis examines if and how Twitter can be used to organize protests by activists.
Theoretically, it addresses several debates about Internet technology in approaches to …