General Patterns, Regional Features and the Concept of Non-Western Democracy

• Main Author: Alexei Dmitrievich Voskressenski
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Jurist, Publishing Group 2015-07-01
• Series: Sravnitelʹnaâ Politika
• Subjects: democracy; democratization; the west; non-western world; the east; broader east asia; greater middle east; political system; comparative analysis
• Online Access: https://www.comparativepolitics.org/jour/article/view/230

The article analyzes the approaches to democratization in the Western and non-Western political systems. The author dwells on the methodology for comparative analysis and the system approach, explains the fundamental differences between Western and non-Western political process, taking into account a wide spectrum of socio-cultural, political, economic and ideological factors. The article also examines the peculiarities of the non-Western political systems, their typology and the formation of the concepts of non-Western democracies.