Ten Challenges of Democratic Consolidation
Democratic consolidation confronts a number of characteristic challenges in new and insecure democracies. What is striking about these challenges varies across countries (and over time), however, and it would be an overstatement to characterize the complete resolution of any one of them as 'necessary' for democratic consolidation. Beyond establishing and routinizing broad commitment to the rules of the democratic game, there are probably no strictly necessary conditions for democratic consolidation, except removing the military as a 're…
