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POPULAR ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A Grammar of Moral Economy in Contemporary Urban Peripheries

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how popular entrepreneurship operates as a cultural grammar that disrupts established practices of wageless life in urban peripheries. Drawing on four years of ethnographic research conducted in São Paulo, it analyses entrepreneurial discourses not simply as ideological impositions, but as ambivalent mediations of ...
Henrique Costa
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PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING IN AUTOCRACIES: Conflicting Logics, Unintended Consequences and Contentious Participation in Angola's Orçamento Participativo

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Participatory institutions are no longer confined to liberal democracies as autocrats around the world experiment with ‘authoritarian participation’. This also applies to the most successful democratic innovation of recent decades: participatory budgeting (PB).
DANIEL TJARKS
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The Legal Support of the Economic Sovereignty of the Autocratic Russia in the Second Half of the XIX to the Early XX Century

History of state and law, 2018
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THE URBANISM OF EXCEPTION: Scalar Rivalry and Political Loyalty in the Making of the Panorama Tbilisi Megaproject

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In flawed democracies, such as the Republic of Georgia, legal exceptions for urban megaprojects are becoming a standard mode of governance. While frequently analyzed as singular, top‐down sovereign acts, I argue that the imposition of such exceptions is a complex and dispersed process.
David Gogishvili
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Autocratic Legalism in New Turkey

Social Research, 2021
Today’s new authoritarian regimes are distinguished by their use of legality in authoritarian consolidation. In Turkey, from 2006 onwards, constitutional amendments and other laws were used for augmenting the powers of the executive branch of government and restricting freedom of speech.
Kadıoğlu, Ayşe
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Autocratic Legalism in India: A Roundtable

Jindal Global Law Review, 2022
At a moment when democracy seems to be experiencing an unprecedented level of crisis worldwide, this roundtable focuses on one country, India, to ask what we can learn from its ongoing challenges. The participants take as their starting point Scheppele’s
Deepa Das Acevedo
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The Authoritarian Resurgence: Autocratic Legalism in Venezuela

Journal of Democracy, 2015
Abstract: This paper contributes to the literature on dynamics of hybrid regimes, i.e., whether these regimes stay stable, or instead, turn more democratic or more autocratic with time. Venezuela since the mid-2000s is an example of the latter. I first focus on how this happened in Venezuela.
Javier Corrales
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Autocratic Legalism and Juridical Veto: Reflections on Politics and the Law in India

Social and Legal Studies
Much ink has been spilt on the errors and lapses of juridical pronouncements by the higher judiciary in India. Such commentary is valuable for tracing changes in the politico-juridical and social context, as well as, the impact of such errors and lapses on fundamental rights and related laws.
Amit Prakash
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Autocratic Legalism 2.0: Insights from a Global Collaborative Research Project

Verfassung in Recht und Übersee, 2022
Since the 2000s, scholars have been faced with a new phenomenon, which political scientists eventually labelled democratic backsliding. Law has not been central in studies of democratic backsliding, but it has not been completely absent either. In the mid-2010s, scholars––mostly from political science and constitutional law––began tracing the links ...
Fabio de Sa e Silva
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Professional Liquidation in the Context of Autocratic Legalism: Lawyers, Class, and Status in Turkey, 2002–?

Law and Social Inquiry
Abstract The relationship between law and autocratization is usually discussed with reference to the judiciary and how a powerful executive can encroach on the domain of the judicial branch. In this article, I suggest that the legal profession also needs to be brought into the discussion on autocratic legalism ...
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