Author: Jakob Tolstrup | Journal of Democracy

Jakob Tolstrup is assistant professor of government and political science at Aarhus University, Denmark, and author of Russia vs. the EU: The Competition for Influence in Post-Soviet States (2013).

October 2014, Volume 25, Issue 4

External Influence and Democratization: Gatekeepers and Linkages

Jakob Tolstrup

Levitsky and Way’s account of linkage and leverage leaves out the key role of “gatekeeper” elites.