compare the strengths and limitations of the two articles. Comparison should include – define or conceptualise the main variables (explanatory factors, outcomes) in their analysis, select and use evidence to measure or observe those variables and build, test, investigate, and/or support their theoretical argument(s) to explain variation in their dependent variable / outcome of interest.
These are the two articles to compare:
Linkage versus Leverage. Rethinking the International Dimension of Regime Change
Steven Levitsky, Lucan A. Way
Comparative Politics, Vol. 38, No. 4 (Jul., 2006), pp. 379-400 (22 pages)
Fish, M. Steven. 2017. What has a quarter-century of post-Communism taught us about the correlates of democracy?, Chapter 1 in Fish, M. Steven, Graeme J. Gill, and Milenko Petrovic (eds.) A Quarter Century of Post-Communism Assessed, Springer Nature
other academic references –
Democratic Authoritarianism: Origins and Effects
Dawn Brancati1
Vol. 17:313-326 (Volume publication date May 2014)
Essentials of Comparative Politics
Book by Patrick H. O’Neil 2024
How development leads to democracy: what we know about modernization
Article by Ronald Inglehart; Christian Welzel 200

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