democratize
To promote democratization, it is necessary to have a free and uncontrolled press.
Delegates challenged the government to speed up the democratization process.
Their ambition to become a European Union member requires further democratization and a better functioning legal system.

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Examples of democratization

democratization
Likewise, we have a potentially significant role to play in analyzing gender and democratization, including the role of women in the region's democratic transitions.
Some political scientists have demonstrated how the prospects for democratization are enhanced by wars.
The conventional view holds that economic globalization and liberalization should pave the way for political liberalization and finally democratization.
After the 1997 financial crisis, however, they have come to recognize that democratization and regional security are mutually intertwined.
The traditional image, however, belies the sectoral variations and the effects of democratization after 1987.
This helps to explain the raft of social reform and other concessions introduced after democratization in both countries.
On that basis, he builds a case for the democratization of global academic communication and knowledge production, currently center-dominated and unequal.
Indeed, a huge literature has continued to find a positive relationship between economic development and democratization with a variety of measurements and cases.
Succession crises can provide a possible path toward democratization from authoritarian monarchies.
The progressive democratization of local and national politics reinforced this, forcing parties into more specialized and sophisticated techniques of organization.
The second and third patterns refer to the presence of only one of those two qualities, which indicates a partial achievement of substantive democratization.
He further argues that the 'winners' of partial economic reform hinder completion of democratization processes, halting the process at 'partial reform equilibrium'.
He argues convincingly that economic development occupies a rather higher position in elite priorities than does genuine democratization.
The dynamics of the relationship between economic reform and democratization may be different across clusters of countries within the region.
Bosnian society has become estranged from democratization as well as democracy under the stability project.
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