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Can autocratic governments influence foreign media? This study finds that political pressures from autocrats can motivate the media in democracies to tone down their negativity. Exploiting China's sudden expulsion of American journalists in March 2020, I
Ruilin Lai
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Historical Perspectives on Deglobalization's Drivers, Outcomes, and Managerial Responses
Abstract The deglobalization process experienced in the early 2020s is not without precedent. This Special Issue leverages business history as a lens to generate new insights and to uncover previously hidden complexities and nuances. Studying previous periods of deglobalization and their varying drivers, outcomes, and responses, the papers in this ...
Andrew Smith +3 more
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Combining autocracy and majority voting: the canonical succession rules of the Latin Church [PDF]
The autocratic turn of the Latin Church in the XI-XIII century, a reaction to the secular power interferences, concentrated the decision-making power in the hands of the top hierarchy, and finally in the hands of the pope.
Giuriato, Luisa
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The purpose of the article is to show the irreconcilable position of liberal publicists in relation to the tsarist regime on the eve of the first Russian revolution of 1905-1907 and during the period of active association of liberals around the foreign ...
Evgeny V. Akhmadulin
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The Development Costs of Revolution: Evidence From Violent and Nonviolent Transitions
ABSTRACT Using data from the Varieties of Democracy (V‐Dem) project and the NAVCO catalog (1950–2019), we estimate the developmental effects of successful revolutions through difference‐in‐differences models and event studies. Our findings differ from common expectations: neither violent nor nonviolent revolutions consistently deliver expected ...
Shishir Shakya +2 more
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Autocracy Promotion: A Concerted Campaign
Are powerful autocratic governments pursuing a concerted effort to spread authoritarianism abroad? What would motivate authoritarians to promote autocracy abroad? Are these motivations limited to Russia and China or common to all authoritarian government?
Helmers, Sophie
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One of the key goals of political economy is to understand how institutional arrangements shape policy outcomes. This paper studies a comparatively neglected aspect of this - the forces that shape heterogeneous performance of autocracies.
Kudamatsu, Masayuki, Besley, Timothy
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The title of autokrator first appeared in the Rhomaian Empire (Byzantium). Translated as samoderzhets, it was taken up by Slavic countries that followed Rhomaian tradition.
Nina Kršljanin
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The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)
Abstract The article offers a case study of how Russian Orthodox who migrated from the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reimagined their religious identity and their church in a transnational setting. Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977) was a Russian aristocrat who fell victim to the Stalinist purges but survived the Soviet prison system ...
Ruth Coates
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INSTITUTIONAL DYNAMICS AND HYBRID REGIME: LIBERAL AND AUTHORITARIAN DEMOCRACY IN THE CENTRAL AFRICA
This paper discusses the institutional dynamics that support the coexistence of liberal and authoritarian democracy in Central Africa with special attention to Cameroon, Gabon and the Central African Republic.
Muhlya Tshombe LUKAMBA +2 more
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