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2017
This essay shows how the idea of the South Atlantic as a space of dictatorships and banana republics was contested on the ground by literary experimentation and transoceanic influence. Armillas- Tiseyra uses Sony Labou Tansi’s La vie et demie (Life and a Half 1979) as an example of a dictator
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This essay shows how the idea of the South Atlantic as a space of dictatorships and banana republics was contested on the ground by literary experimentation and transoceanic influence. Armillas- Tiseyra uses Sony Labou Tansi’s La vie et demie (Life and a Half 1979) as an example of a dictator
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The Autocratic Middle Class, 2020
Conventional wisdom holds that the rising middle-classes are a force for democracy. Yet in post-Soviet countries like Russia, where the middle-class has grown rapidly, authoritarianism is deepening.
Bryn Rosenfeld
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Conventional wisdom holds that the rising middle-classes are a force for democracy. Yet in post-Soviet countries like Russia, where the middle-class has grown rapidly, authoritarianism is deepening.
Bryn Rosenfeld
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From Duterte to Orbán: the political economy of autocratic hedging
Journal of International Relations and Development, 2023Alvin Camba, Rachel Epstein
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The State as a Firm: Understanding the Autocratic Roots of Technocratic Populism
East European Politics and Societies, 2018Why, when, and how does populism emerge in a stable democracy? This article investigates the political logic and ideological appeal of a rarely explored form of populism: technocratic populism. Technocratic populism uses the appeal of technical expertise
Lenka Buštíková, P. Guasti
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Citizen Support for Democratic and Autocratic Regimes
, 2020The book takes a political-culture perspective on the struggle between democracy and autocracy by examining how these regimes fare in the eyes of their citizens. Taking a globally comparative approach, it studies both the levels as well as the individual-
Marlene Mauk
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The Autocratic Ruling Parties Dataset: Origins, Durability, and Death
Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2019How do autocratic ruling parties gain power? What predicts their durability and how they fall? This article introduces the Autocratic Ruling Parties Dataset, the first comprehensive data set on the founding origins, modes of gaining and losing power ...
Michael K. Miller
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Autocratic power? Energy megaprojects in the age of democratic backsliding
Energy Research & Social Science, 2022M. Huda
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Targeting autocrats: Economic sanctions and regime change
European Journal of Political Economy, 2014When it comes to international economic sanctions, the most frequent goal is regime change and democratization. Yet, past experiences suggest that such sanctions are often ineffective; moreover, quite paradoxically, targeted regimes tend to respond with policies that amplify the sanctions’ harmful effects.
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Economic development and autocratization
We first survey theoretical arguments and recent quantitative studies on the relationship between economic development and autocratization and thereafter present a novel analysis, which offers hitherto unmatched empirical coverage. Our investigation examines whether the level of economic or short-term economic growth is related to regimes experiencing ...Croissant, Aurel +2 more
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