Since 1945, has the imposition of democracy by foreign powers been limited to five exceptional cases, as claimed by Schmitter, or is it at the origin of the two thirds of democracies as maintained by Whitehead ? This article proposes a definition of the imposition of democracy and analyses 24 of the 40 scenarios of democratization that correspond to this definition. It shows that the imposition of democracy has been limited to 6 cases, if we take into account only liberal democracies, and to 9 cases if we consider liberal and consociational democracies. These preliminary results tend to indicate : that the imposition of democracy has not been the rule; and that the point of view ot the authors about the extent of the imposition of democracy depends on their definition of democracy.