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This section on Color Revolutions shifts the focus from description to explanation, starting with the conceptualization of Color Revolutions. Then, various factors that influence the ‘success’ and ‘failure’ of Color Revolutions are presented, targeting both structure and agency, and the domestic and international spheres. The text provides an overview of the most important theoretical approaches and discourses on Color Revolutions that elaborate on the question of why some autocratic leaders were ousted through large-scale protest, while others were able to remain in office.
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As discussed in Sect. 3.2.2, similar approaches to the ‘learning of the regime’ have been introduced by Robert Horvath, Vitali Silitski, and Andrew Wilson. They all focus on how autocrats prepare to meet potential challenges to the regime’s stability from the regime’s perspective (see Sect. 3.2.2). Following this path, Lucan Way and Stephen Levitsky have modeled how autocratic leaders ‘learn how to live with elections’ in a political system of ‘competitive authoritarianism’ (Way and Levitsky 2010: 183ff.).
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Gerlach, J. (2014). Explaining Color Revolutions. In: Color Revolutions in Eurasia. SpringerBriefs in Political Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07872-4_3
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