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Don’t Be Fooled by Autocrats!

, 2020
On 9 April, Vera Jourová, Vice President of the European Commission for values and transparency with lead responsibility for rule of law, gave an interview to Euronews on democracy in the pandemic. A journalist asked whether she believes that Hungary still qualifies as a democracy after the Enabling Act creating an indefinite state of emergency was ...
HALMAI, Gábor, SCHEPPELE, Kim Lane
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Determinants of Re-Autocratization

Politikon, 2016
During the 1990s, research in the political sciences within the framework of the transition paradigm focused mainly on democratization and consolidation.
Kristin Eichhorn
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DEMOCRACY STATE AND AUTOCRATIZATION FEATURES IN THE REPUBLIC OF ALBANIA

Journal of Liberty and International Affairs, 2022
This article examines the Albanian political regime, as a single case study, for the period 2013-2021, as part of the Western Balkans' experience of democratic backsliding, by investigating the framework of factors linked with the formidable challenge ...
Dorina Bërdufi, Afrim Krasniqi
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The End of a Great Era: Post-Soviet Transformation in a Historical Perspective

Nuovi autoritarismi e democrazie: diritto, istituzioni, società, 2023
This article offers a conceptual and methodological apparatus for assessing periods of contemporary history. Using this apparatus and empirical data from the development of Eastern European and northern Eurasian countries over the last forty years, the ...
Mykhailo Minakov
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EU and Agenda 2030 – Peace, Justice & Strong Institutions

Journal of Geography, Politics and Society, 2022
In 2015, the United Nations (UN) decided on 17 sustainable development goals. Goal 16 focused on peace, justice and strong institutions and on the importance of democracy for global sustainable development.
Daniel Silander
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Disaster governance and autocratic legitimation in Bangladesh. Aiding autocratization?

, 2021
During the past decades, reduced disaster mortality, efficient evacuations in the face of storms and climate change advocacy earned Bangladesh a reputation as a global leader within disaster risk reduction (DRR). From a present where authoritarianism jeopardizes past DRR achievements, this chapter discusses the much-overlooked issue of disaster risk ...
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En el nombre del pueblo: consolidación autocrática subnacional en Cuba

Revista de Estudios Sociales, 2022
The text analyzes the democraticity of decision-making processes on local level public affairs in Cuba, emphasizing the examination of citizens’ capacities to influence the conditions that sustain decision-making and public debates. The study reveals the
Hans Carrillo Guach
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China, autocratic cooperation and autocratic survival [PDF]

, 2011
This thesis examines whether China, as an emerging autocratic power, is a force of autocratic stability in the world. By combining expertise accumulated in the field of area studies with a comparative research design that is common in the field of international politics, this thesis contributes to two scientific debates: First, it adds to the ...
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Towards understanding constitutional court resilience vis-à-vis autocratization

Oñati Socio-Legal Series
Attitudinal and strategic models prevail in studying the capacities of centralized constitutional courts (CCs) to withstand autocratization. Yet, these models rarely scrutinize CCs’ interpretations of political concepts.
Max Steuer
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The Road to Autocratization? Redefining Democracy in Poland [PDF]

Studia Europejskie, 2019
The present paper explores how political thinking in Poland changed after the election campaigns (general and presidential) of 2015. Its main goal is to determine what the current developments mean for the future of democracy in Poland. Will Poland face
Jarosław Szczepański, Paulina Kalina
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