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Autocratization and ethnic relations

The chapter investigates the impact of the onset and unfolding of episodes of autocratization on the relations between ethnic minority and majority groups.
Panzano, Guido
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Democratic backsliding in Africa? Autocratization, resilience, and contention /

, 2023
This book advances ongoing debates on democratic backsliding and autocratization with specific reference to Africa. It offers a carefully developed theoretical framework and, unlike many previous studies, adds an international dimension to the analyses ...
Arriola, Leonardo R.,, Rakner, Lise,(viaf)47001951   +1 more
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A theory of political divergence and gradual institutional change

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Why do some societies succeed in breaking away from historical traditions while others remain trapped? This paper proposes a formal theory to investigate the interaction between short‐run and long‐run political dynamics, highlighting a co‐evolution of political institutions and social structures.
Clair Yang
wiley   +1 more source

Academic freedom in Europe: Limitations and judicial remedies

Global Constitutionalism
Europe has recently struggled with democratic backsliding and autocratization. This autocratization has accompanied a decline in academic freedom in many backsliding countries, as reported by the Academic Freedom Index.
Kriszta Kovács
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Learning traps

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract When constituents are uncertain about whether leaders' policy preferences align with their interests, policy choices generate a trade‐off between payoffs and information. Leaders can experiment with their preferred policy, but if the outcome is bad, constituents learn this and threaten office removal. I use a repeated model of political agency
Hassan Sayed
wiley   +1 more source

Constitutional Judging under Pressure: The Role of Judges in Safeguarding the Rule of Law, Equality, and Planetary Survival

German Law Journal
Introducing the Special Issue on “Judging under Pressure,” this Article sets out three interlinked challenges facing constitutional courts, broadly understood: persisting inequalities, the climate crisis, and rising autocratization.
Başak Çalı, Cathryn Costello, Nora Markard   +2 more
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Brokers, Collaborators and Knowledge Translators: Expanding the Role of Research Assistants in Geographic Research

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While ‘local’ research assistants (RA) often play a key role in knowledge production in fieldwork‐based disciplines like geography, their role and agency often remain silenced. This paper brings together scholarship in feminist geography and critical development studies to reposition RAs as brokers, collaborators, and knowledge translators.
Zali Fung
wiley   +1 more source

Autocratization through academic capture: When and how would-be autocrats threaten academic freedom

Academic capture is a deliberate mode of autocratization. Autocratization through academic capture undermines all dimensions of academic freedom, with cumulative and enduring effects.
Panaro, Angelo Vito
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Learning From Senior Leaders as a Catalyst for Innovativeness: The Differential Contributions of Supervisors, Coaches, and Mentors Under Varying Task Uncertainty

Creativity and Innovation Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While the literature on employees' innovative work behavior (IWB) treats leaders as a homogeneous source of firm‐internal knowledge, we examine how learning from different types of senior leaders (supervisors, coaches, and mentors) differentially affects employees' IWB and how these effects vary with the uncertainty of work tasks.
Björn Frank, Ei Ei Phyo, Yuosre F. Badir   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

How democracies prevail: democratic resilience as a two-stage process. [PDF]

Democratization, 2021
Boese VA, Edgell AB, Hellmeier S, Maerz SF, Lindberg SI.   +4 more
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