This book argues that democracies emerging from peaceful protest last longer, achieve higher levels of democratic quality, and are more likely to see at least two peaceful handovers of power than democracies that emerged out of violent resistance or top-down liberalization.
Daniel Lambach is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Goethe University, Germany.Markus Bayer is Research Fellow at University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.Felix S. Bethke is Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, Germany.Matteo Dressler is Researcher at the Flemish Peace Institute, Belgium.Véronique Dudouet is Programme Director at Berghof Foundation, Germany.