Acquiring the Habit of Changing Governments Through Elections

Adam Przeworski

doi:10.1177/0010414014543614

Acquiring the Habit of Changing Governments Through Elections

Adam Przeworski

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Abstract

Changing governments through elections is a rare and a recent practice. Yielding office the first time is foreboding because it entails the risk that the gesture would not be reciprocated, but the habit develops rapidly once the first step is taken. This article provides evidence for these assertions by examining about 3,000 elections in the world since 1788.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	101-129
Number of pages	29
Journal	Comparative Political Studies
Volume	48
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414014543614
State	Published - Jan 12 2015

Keywords

democracy
elections
regimes

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Sociology and Political Science

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