ABSTRACT
The Democratic Transition refers to the process of moving from a society and economy dominated by pre-ordained authority in the form of Church, State, tribe, family, monarchy or any other form of often unaccountable power, to one where the population plays a more active role in that society and governance. For some writers, the Democratic Transition can be located at ‘a precise moment in time in which a regime makes a qualitative leap in levels of democracy, either from an authoritarian regime to an electoral democracy or from a semi-autocratic regime to a more democratic system’. 1
