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This textbook provides a systematic, comprehensive and historically embedded introduction to the formation, functioning and development conditions of today’s non-democratic regimes. It disseminates the results of international autocracy research, familiarises readers with its concepts and methods, provides information about the most important types of ...
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
Corruption is typically depicted as a result of one of two factors: a lack of political accountability or insufficient state capacity. Nonetheless, substantial variation in corruption levels exists even within the set of politically unaccountable high-capacity regimes. In this paper, we examine a third determinant of corruption ‐ the ideological appeal
James R. Hollyer, Leonard Wantchekon
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Corruption is typically depicted as a result of one of two factors: a lack of political accountability or insufficient state capacity. Nonetheless, substantial variation in corruption levels exists even within the set of politically unaccountable high-capacity regimes. In this paper, we examine a third determinant of corruption ‐ the ideological appeal
James R. Hollyer, Leonard Wantchekon
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2019
By analogy with democracy promotion, this chapter explores the concept of autocracy promotion, referring to policy measures that have the potential to influence another country’s political system with a view to hampering democratization processes or to fostering autocratic regimes.
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By analogy with democracy promotion, this chapter explores the concept of autocracy promotion, referring to policy measures that have the potential to influence another country’s political system with a view to hampering democratization processes or to fostering autocratic regimes.
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1997
Russian political life before 1917 was overwhelmingly the preserve of social elites. The formal structures of government and bureaucracy were dominated by educated noblemen and it was their attitudes which continued to permeate the Russian political system.1 The middle classes which were making their mark on the politics of Western Europe were much ...
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Russian political life before 1917 was overwhelmingly the preserve of social elites. The formal structures of government and bureaucracy were dominated by educated noblemen and it was their attitudes which continued to permeate the Russian political system.1 The middle classes which were making their mark on the politics of Western Europe were much ...
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1979
Soviet political culture is rooted in the historical experience of centuries of absolutism.1 Since at least medieval times the country has typically been ruled by a succession of strong, autocratic monarchs; and countervailing institutions—parliamentary, legal, or whatever—have remained weak and undeveloped. The country’s geography no doubt predisposed
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Soviet political culture is rooted in the historical experience of centuries of absolutism.1 Since at least medieval times the country has typically been ruled by a succession of strong, autocratic monarchs; and countervailing institutions—parliamentary, legal, or whatever—have remained weak and undeveloped. The country’s geography no doubt predisposed
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Autocracy, Inc.: the dictators who want to run the world
International AffairsFraser Cameron
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Totalitarian Dictatorship and Autocracy.
American Slavic and East European Review, 1957Alexander Dallin +2 more
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