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100			_aKalandadze, Katya
245			_aElectoral protests and democratization: beyond the color revolutions
260			_c2009
300			_ap.1403-425.
362			_aNov
520			_aThe 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 had finally brought democracy to Serbia, Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyztan. But how successful have these electoral revolutions actually been? The authors analyze all cases of electoral revolutions worldwide since 1991, distinguishing between failed and successful electoral revolutions, to conclude that even successful electoral revolutions have shown insignificant or no democratic progress in their wake. Electoral revolutions are ineffective at advancing democratization because they place too great an emphasis on elections themselves and do not address other fundamental obstacles to democratization in hybrid and authoritarian regimes. International influences have proven more successful in promoting democratization in countries of postcommunist Europe. - Reproduced.
650			_aDemocratization
650			_aProtest movements
650			_aElections
700			_aOrenstein, Mitchell A.
773			_aComparative Political Studies
908			_aN
909			_a85172
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