The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes: Crisis, Breakdown & Reequilibration

TABLE OF CONTENT

1.0 Introduction 1

2.0 Elements of Breakdown 2

3.0 The Process of Breakdown 4

4.0 The End of Democracy 5

5.0 The Process of Re-equilibration 5

6.0 Conclusion 6

LIST OF MODELS

Model 1: Relationship of Legitimacy, Efficacy and Effectiveness towards Stability and Performance 3

THE BREAKDOWN OF DEMOCRATIC REGIMES: CRISIS, BREAKDOWN & REEQUILIBRATION

Introduction

Many existing literature on the collapse of the democracy concentrated on rises of nondemocratic political powers or the fundamental structural tension that lead to the breakdown of democratic institution. In this publication, author, Juan J. Linz is giving attention to dynamic of the political process of breakdown by referring to tragic consequences of democratic collapse in German, Spain and Chile. This attention has begun during the author childhood where he was concerned with the fate of Spanish democracy, the fate his as citizen. This concern later had shared with Alfred Stepan who writes a dissertation on the breakdown of democracy in Brazil. Both of them get support and attention from many people and agencies. The focus firstly gets attention at the Seventh World Congress of Sociology at Varna, Bulgaria in 1970. In year 1973, with the support from the Concilium of International and Area Studies of Yale University, and the Joint Committee on Latin America of Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies, Linz and Stepan chaired the conference. With the contribution of their publication later on has influence other contributors to give attention to the related issues.

In year 1978, Linz individually had published a book regarding The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes: Crisis, Breakdown & Reequilibration. In this publication, author a seeking on the competitiveness of democracies regimes in united nation-state that had achieved independence before the crisis of regime. The criteria of democracy that will be analyse...