Dankwart Rustow
Author
1924 – 1996
Who was Dankwart Rustow?
Dankwart Alexander Rustow was a professor of political science and sociology. He is perhaps best known as the 'father of transitology,' a school of thought in the field of democratization studies. In his seminal 1970 article 'Transitions to Democracy: Toward a Dynamic Model,' Rustow broke from the prevailing schools of thought on how countries became democratic. Disagreeing with the heavy focus on necessary social and economic pre-conditions for democracy, he argued that only national unity was a necessary precondition for democracy. Beyond that, the most important thing for a transition from authoritarian rule to democracy was consensus between elites on the new rules of the game.
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- Born
- Dec 21, 1924
Berlin - Also known as
- Dankwart A. Rustow
- Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, Yale University
Political Science
( - 1951)
- PhD, Yale University
- Lived in
- Upper West Side
( - 1996/08/03)
- Upper West Side
- Died
- Aug 3, 1996
Manhattan
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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