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Comparing autocracies in the early Twenty-first Century -

Comparing autocracies in the early Twenty-first Century

Volume 1: Unpacking Autocracies - Explaining Similarity and Difference
Buch | Softcover
228 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-92748-0 (ISBN)
CHF 69,80 inkl. MwSt
This unique two-volume work takes stock of recent research and provides new insights into autocratic rule in the early twenty-first century. This first volume discusses concepts and measurements of autocracy as well as determinants and strategies of autocratic regime survival.

This book is an amalgam of articles from the journals Demo
Despite the so-called Third Wave of Democratization, many autocracies have been resilient in the face of political change. Moreover, many of the transition processes that could be included in the Third Wave have reached a standstill, or, at the very least, have taken a turn for the worse, leading sometimes to new forms of non-democratic regimes. As a result of these developments, the research on autocracies has experienced a revival in recent times.

This unique two-volume work aims at taking stock of recent research and providing new conceptual, theoretical, and empirical insights into autocratic rule in the early twenty-first century. It is organized into two parts. The contributions in this first volume analyse the trajectories, manifestations and perspectives of non-democratic rule in general and autocratic rule in particular. It brings together some of the leading authoritarianism scholars in Europe and North America who address three broad questions: How to conceptualize and measure forms of autocratic regimes? What determines the persistence of autocratic rule? What is the role of political institutions, legitimation, ideology, and repression for the survival of different forms of autocratic rule?

This book is an amalgam of articles from the journals Democratization, Contemporary Politics and Politische Vierteljahresschrift.

Aurel Croissant is Professor of Political Science at the Institute of Political Science, Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg, Germany. Steffen Kailitz is Senior Researcher at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism. Patrick Köllner is Director of the Institute of Asian Studies (GIGA) and Professor of Political Science at Hamburg University, Germany. Stefan Wurster is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Political Science, Ruprecht-Karls-University, Germany.

1. Introduction 2. Authoritarian regime types revisited: updated data in comparative perspective 3. Classifying political regimes revisited: legitimation and durability 4. The three pillars of stability: legitimation, repression, and co-optation in autocratic regimes 5. Informal Institutions in Autocratic Regimes: Concept, Analytical Framework, and the Case of the Communist Party of China 6. Four Basic Types of Autocracy and Their Strategies of Legitimation 7. Ideology after the end of ideology. China and the quest for autocratic legitimation 8. Elections in Authoritarian Regimes: Comparing Post-Soviet Cases 9. Populism and competitive authoritarianism in non-democratic elections

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Democratization Special Issues
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 421 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Systeme
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 1-032-92748-8 / 1032927488
ISBN-13 978-1-032-92748-0 / 9781032927480
Zustand Neuware
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Buch | Hardcover (2024)
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