Abstract
The text deals with research on the impact of international factors on democratization, which is neglected and marginalized topic in political science. The research objective is therefore to answer the question whether and how the international environment operate to the states and the undemocratic regimes with hegemonic party, relying mainly on the theory of Linkage and Leverage of Steven Levitsky and Lucan A.
Way (2005, 2006, 2010), which is applied to two countries - Taiwan, which confirms their theory, and Singapore, which is contrary beyond.