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Une analyse critique de la transitologie: valeurs heuristiques, limites d'interprétation et difficultés méthodologiques
Towards a critical analysis of transitiology: heuristic values, limits of interpretation and methodological difficulties
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Abstract By the end of 1970s, transitology, or the study of the transformations following the breakdown of dictatorial regimes, became a sub-discipline of political science. Various theoretical perspectives oriented the analysis toward different factors that could decisively influence political change and tr... view more
By the end of 1970s, transitology, or the study of the transformations following the breakdown of dictatorial regimes, became a sub-discipline of political science. Various theoretical perspectives oriented the analysis toward different factors that could decisively influence political change and transition: the economic and cultural prerequisites, the weight of the recent past, the extrication-path from dictatorship or the international setting. This article examines critically the main currents of transitology in order to re-evaluate their heuristic capacity, their interpretative limits and their methodological difficulties. It stands for rethinking the paradigms of political transition, towards a multidimensional model of analysis of political change, more sensitive to the local specificities and to the dynamic of transformations on the long term.... view less
Keywords
transitional society; transformation; democratization; political change
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Document language
French
Publication Year
2012
Page/Pages
p. 485-504
Journal
Studia Politica: Romanian Political Science Review, 12 (2012) 3
ISSN
1582-4551
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works