SOME PROBLEMS WITH TRANSITION THEORY
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https://doi.org/10.15174/remap.v13i26.435Keywords:
Transition, Democratic Transition, Democracy, Democratization, Democratic ConsolidationAbstract
The objective of this paper is to review in the long term the theory of transitions to propose some adjustments in it that allow it to overcome several inconsistencies that afflict it from its first developments. Thus, for example, a) when it consider that the actors of change are always the political elites, both of the old regime and the emerging one, to the detriment of social actors and society in general, sins of reductionist; b) it is a very rigid and closed theory in its options, so it underestimates or omits other possible defeats and outcomes; and c) it has become a highly normative view of regime change, insensitive to factors and circumstances not contemplated by the theory, but not irrelevant.
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