Comparing Autocracies in the Early Twenty-first Century: Unpacking Autocracies - Explaining Similarity and Difference (1) - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0415719348 ISBN 13 : 9780415719346

Editeur : Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0415719348
• ISBN 13: 9780415719346
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 210
• Éditeur: Croissant Aurel, Kailitz Steffen, Koellner Patrick, Wurster Stefan
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible