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The problem with autocracy promotion [PDF]

open access: yesDemocratization, 2015
Recent scholarship has increasingly focused on the international dimensions of authoritarian rule, and the idea of autocracy promotion has gained considerable academic currency. While the literature on autocracy promotion has identified some clear patterns of external support for autocratic incumbents, it has so far failed to demonstrate that these ...
Tansey, Oisín; id_orcid
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Autocracy With Chinese Characteristics: Beijing’s Behind-the-Scenes Reforms [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/148140/1/Autocracy With Chinese Characteristics, posted version ...
Ang, Yuen Yuen
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Fear of campaign violence and support for democracy and autocracy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Election violence is common in many developing countries and has potentially detrimental implications for democratic consolidation. Drawing on political psychology, we argue that citizens’ fear of campaign violence undermines support for democracy while ...
Von Borzyskowski, I   +11 more
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Executed under the name of Antonov: Revolutionary Biography of Vladimir Sviridenko

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Russian History, 2022
The article reconstructs the “revolutionary biography” of populist Vladimir Antonovich Sviridenko who was previously practically unknown in the scientific community, using the methodological approaches inherent to the “personal history” direction.
Oleg A. Milevsky
doaj   +1 more source

Kant on Moral Autocracy, Moral Faith and Happiness [PDF]

open access: yesOrganon F
Kant’s account of moral autocracy as the strength of will to impose inner self-constraint is usually interpreted as being strengthened and promoted by the pursuit of the obligatory ends of perfection and holiness. In this context, moral autocracy is seen
Neşe Aksoy
doaj   +1 more source

Does the Informal Sector Thrive Under Democracy or Autocracy?: The Case of Nepal [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Our paper investigates the size and development of the informal sector in Nepal using aggregate data over the period 1991 to 2009. Our estimation using the Multiple Indicator Multiple Cause (MIMIC) model shows that the average size of the informal sector
Shrestha, S.   +3 more
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Human capital and corruption: a microeconomic model of the bribes market with democratic contestability

open access: yesNotas Económicas, 2006
To overcome market failures society creates common laws that stimulate or penalize individual actions, the enforcement of which depends on the actions of public authorities who may be susceptible to corruption.
Pedro Cosme Costa Vieira   +1 more
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Anatomy of the Protests of Political Exiles in Western Siberia in the 1880s

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Russian History, 2020
Using the methods of regional history, the present paper studies some little-known pages of the history of the political exile life in Western Siberia. The present case gives us a new perspective on the institution of political exile, and insights into ...
Oleg A. Milevsky
doaj   +1 more source

“Rights and Liberties” in Pylyp Orlyk’s Constitution through the Prism of Renaissance Interpretations of Justice

open access: yesBulletin of Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, 2021
Such an outstanding historical monument of Ukrainian state-building as the Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk of 1710 has been studied in the context of the traditions of European constitutionalism and its influence on the process of national state-building of ...
S. B. Ivanov
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“The totality of all the forces of Russian life ...” (Ivan Goncharov about strong Russia) [PDF]

open access: yesДва века русской классики, 2020
In the article, the topic “Ivan Goncharov and Russia” is first developed in terms of the historiosophical ideas of the novelist, as well as within the framework of Sergey Uvarov’s formula: “Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality”.
Vladimir I. Melnik
doaj   +1 more source

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