01803     2200253   4500001002100000005001500021035002000036008004100056020001500097041000800112082001000120084001600130100002200146245009000168260004400258300003700302500002300339504001400362520102600376650003501402650006001437990002601497990002601523INLIS00000000000308220221110082411  a0010-0520003082221110                |          | eng    a0521844827  aeng  a320.9  a320.9 PEV d0 aPevehouse, Jon C.1 aDemocracy from Above : Regional Organizations and Democratization /cJon C. Pevehouse  aCambridge :bRoutledge-Cavendish,c2005  axiv, 248p. :b: illus. ;c23 cm.  aIndeks : p.243-248  ap.219-242  aSince the momentous events of the late 1980s, democratic transition has been a widely studied phenomenon. Most scholars who have investigated the causes and implications of the global trend to democracy have argued that domestic politics is the leading determinant in the success of failure of transitions to democracy. The author argues that international factors, specifically regional organizations, play an important role in the transition to and endurance of democracy. Domestic elites use membership of regional organizations to advance the cause of democracy since these organizations can manipulate the costs and benefits of democracy to important societal groups, such as business elites or the military. Six cases are used to examine the causal processes behind the statistical association between regional organizations and democratization. These findings bridge international relations and comparative politics providing guidelines for policymakers who wish to use regional organizations to promote democracy. 4aDemocratization - Case studies 4aRegionalism (International organization) - Case studies  a11571/MKRI-P/XII-2008  a11571/MKRI-P/XII-2008