Democratisation by Mistake in Different Types of Political Regimes: Correlations and Causal Mechanisms

The fairly recent concept of democratisation by mistake still remains poorly understood and little introduced in research on democratic transition. My research aims to examine this concept in more depth. It will add to the existing literature by drawing new conclusions regarding the relationship between non-democratic regime type and possible error, based on the fundamental features of the political order. I will examine four regime types: military, personalist, one-party, and monarchies. The data obtained will be presented in a table that will allow us to conclude whether correlations are absent or present. Using process tracing methodology, I will examine the factors that may have provoked the error in each particular type of non-democratic regime, using the example of countries that underwent democratisation due to a miscalculation. As a result, the findings will be presented in the final part of the paper, where the facts of the correlations and their workability in the context of the analysed cases will be highlighted once again.