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Reading Quiz 7_Babucarr

Reading Quiz 7_Babucarr

Q What is a transplacement? What four actors are involved in transplacements? How do Jung and Shapiro describe the balance of power that must exist between those four actors in order for a negotiated transition to democracy to occur?

Q Why, according to Jung and Shapiro, do government reformers maintain a stronger bargaining position than opposition moderates do during a negotiated transition?What, according to Jung and Shapiro, are the consequences of the fact that government reformers maintain a stronger bargaining position than opposition moderates do during a negotiated transition?

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The idea of transplacement encapsulates the essence of both transformation as well as replacement. It results largely when democratic transition from authoritarian regimes take place as a result of joint action by the elites in power and the elites in the opposition. In order to ensure a successful transplacemnet, two conditions needs to be fulfilled. In the first place, the dominant groups in government as well as the opposition must bargain with one another, while all the whole acknowledging the fact that they would not be capable of determining the future unilaterally.