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100			_aElkink, Johan A.
245			_aThe international diffusion of democracy.
260			_c2011
300			_ap.1651-1674.
362			_aDec
520			_aThe idea that democracy is contagious, that democracy diffuses across the world map, is now well established among policy makers and political scientists alike. the few theoretical explanations of this phenomenon focus exclusively on political elites. This article presents a theoretical model and accompanying computer simulation that explains the diffusion of democracy based on the dynamics of public opinion and mass revolutions. On the basis of the literature on preference falsification, cascading revolutions, and the social judgment theory, an agent-based simulation is developed and analyzed. The result demonstrate that the diffusion of attitudes, in combination with a cascading model of revolutions, is indeed a possible theoretical explanation of the spatial clustering of democracy. - Reproduced.
650			_aDemocracy
773			_aComparative Political Studies
908			_aN
909			_a94761
999			_c94761 _d94761