Classification and Consolidation: Some Lessons from the Greek Dictatorship
Recent scholarship on regime change has gone through three phases. In the late 1960s and the mid-1970s, the disintegration of democracies in South America, Asia, Africa, and Greece stimulated a wave of works on the breakdown of democratic regimes. ' In the next decade, the collapse of the resulting authoritarian regimes led to a new wave of theory on the breakdown of dictatorship.2 Today, in the 1990s, as the democracies that emerged from dictatorships evince a surprising durability, scholars are moving into a third area of research-that of regime consolidation.3