GGH3702 Assignment 1 (COMPLETE ANSWERS)
Semester 1 2025 - DUE 17 March 2025; 100%
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1989 Transition Patterns
1. National Consensus (Negotiated)
2.Beaurocratic-Authoritarian
3. Patrimonial
National Consensus
➢ (Poland/Hungary) Communist Regimes transitioned by negotiation between the regime
and the opposition
Beaurocratic-Authoritarian
➢ (Czechoslovakia, East Germany) Regimes collapsed allowing creation of new government
Patrimonial
➢ (Romania, Bulgaria, Albania) limited "smokescreen" changes resulting in 10+ year delay
in transition
Revolution
➢ mass supported seizure of political power that aims to change the social order
Coup d'etat
➢ a sudden usurpation of state power by illegal or extra-constitutional means involving the
use or threat of force
Transitions Paradigm
1. Opening & Liberalization
2. Breakthrough - collapse of the regime & emergence of democratic forms
3. Consolidation - habitiona of democratic system
Democratic Consolidation
Semester 1 2025 - DUE 17 March 2025; 100%
TRUSTED Complete, trusted solutions and
explanations.
1989 Transition Patterns
1. National Consensus (Negotiated)
2.Beaurocratic-Authoritarian
3. Patrimonial
National Consensus
➢ (Poland/Hungary) Communist Regimes transitioned by negotiation between the regime
and the opposition
Beaurocratic-Authoritarian
➢ (Czechoslovakia, East Germany) Regimes collapsed allowing creation of new government
Patrimonial
➢ (Romania, Bulgaria, Albania) limited "smokescreen" changes resulting in 10+ year delay
in transition
Revolution
➢ mass supported seizure of political power that aims to change the social order
Coup d'etat
➢ a sudden usurpation of state power by illegal or extra-constitutional means involving the
use or threat of force
Transitions Paradigm
1. Opening & Liberalization
2. Breakthrough - collapse of the regime & emergence of democratic forms
3. Consolidation - habitiona of democratic system
Democratic Consolidation