Democratization Through Destructive Withdrawal: The Political Autonomy of Actors in Accounts of Systemic Political Change

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Brief Overview

The Democratization literature neglects the autonomy of actors in the shadow of a crisis of the governing regime. This paper attempts to provide a conflictual theory to a part of the field vacillating between the poles of contingency and determinism.

Author

• Mostafa Hani Hefny, American University in Cairo