Abstract
Why do some countries democratize and others do not? Why do some democracies become long-lasting and others quickly reverse to authoritarianism? In the other pole, why are some authoritarian regimes stable while others collapse? These are classical questions in comparative politics and we have managed to answer them in diverse manners in the last decades. And yet somehow we seem to be far from a dominant paradigm, or a fairly undisputed theory of regime change. In Democracies and Dictatorships in Latin America: Emergence, Survival, and Fall, Mainwaring and Perez-Linan (2013) offer yet another answer to these core questions. Therefore, the natural judgment for readers to make is whether their theory is in any fashion superior to previous ones. Mainwaring and Perez-Linan make a valid point about the limitations of the theories of democratization so far, including
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