The impact of diffusion effects on the growth and spread of democracy in the global system is investigated. Using hazard analyses as well as previously employed transition matrices for the analysis of diffusion, a modified Freedom House data set is analyzed to delineate systemic, regional, and neighbor effects from 1974 to 1996. The dynamics of democratization are broken down by contrasting the differences and similarities of governmental transitions between the countries that were free (and moved to partially free and nonfree), the countries that were nonfree (and moved to partially free and free), and those countries that were partially free (and moved away from that status).
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