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The democratization literature often presented the democratization process as the outcome of a domestic political process not significantly influenced by actors outside the nation-state. These accounts viewed the movement toward or away from democracy as the product of largely internal processes of socioeconomic change
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The core idea of ‘methodological nationalism’ is that social sciences have tended to conceptualize social phenomena around the boundaries of the nation-state. This limits the ability of social scientists and historians to perceive processes that are beyond the level of the nation-state, such as transnational processes. From the point of view of methodological nationalism, transnational processes and internations are either invisible or unimportant.
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Selim, G.M. (2015). External Factors and Democratization: A Conceptual Framework. In: The International Dimensions of Democratization in Egypt. Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace, vol 11. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16700-8_3
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