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An anatomy of worldmaking: Sukarno and anticolonialism from post‐Bandung Indonesia
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract This article analyzes the anticolonial worldmaking of postcolonial Indonesia's first president Sukarno, during Guided Democracy (1959–1965). Using worldmaking as a conceptual interface, the article offers three interconnected interventions.
Say Jye Quah
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Discrimination in communist period: the life of political prisoners after release
Sfera Politicii, 2012 This article analyzes how political prisoners from communist Romania survived after release. They don’t allow rejoining in jobs had before imprisonment, and their families suffered regime oppression to.
Ilarion Ţiu
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Networks of coercion: Military ties and civilian leadership challenges in China
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Civilian‐led coups are one of the most common routes to losing power in autocracies. How do authoritarian leaders secure themselves from civilian leadership challenges? We argue that autocrats differentiate civilian rivals in part by their social ties to the military.
Tyler Jost, Daniel Mattingly
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Ghiţă Ionescu, Communism in Romania. A book to be reread
Sfera Politicii, 2014 The present paper advocates a contemporany reading of the volum of Ghiţă Ionescu, „Comunismul în România“. Being a relevant picture of the communist regime, the volume guides the discussion towards the theory of „communist legacy“,a general formula ...
Alexandru Radu
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Brook no compromise: How to negotiate a united front
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Negotiating factional conflict is crucial to successful coordination: Political parties, rebel alliances, and authoritarian elites must all overcome internal disagreements to survive and achieve collective aims. Actors in these situations sometimes employ hardball tactics to block outcomes they dislike, but at the risk of causing coordination ...
Elaine Yao
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American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract The rise of social media in the digital era poses unprecedented challenges to authoritarian regimes that aim to influence public attitudes and behaviors. To address these challenges, we argue that authoritarian regimes have adopted a decentralized approach to produce and disseminate propaganda on social media.
Yingdan Lu +3 more
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International Mobility of Romanian Students in Europe: From Statistical Evidence to Policy Measures [PDF]
International mobility of any kind is quite young in Romania, and it was possible only after falling of the communist regime in 1989. Consequently, the paper reflects firstly some conceptual issues on international student mobility; than, in the second ...
Roman, Monica, Suciu, Christina
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Why did Putin invade Ukraine? A theory of degenerate autocracy
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Many dictatorships end up with a series of disastrous decisions such as Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union or Saddam Hussein's aggression against Kuwait. Even if a certain policy choice is not ultimately fatal for the regime, such as Mao's Big Leap Forward or the Pol Pot's collectivization drive, they typically involve both a miscalculation ...
Georgy Egorov, Konstantin Sonin
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Welfare state arrangements in Romania: developmental departures and memory breaches
Sfera Politicii, 2019 The article is meant at elaborating a framework for the unitary conceptualization of the development of social policies and welfare institutions in Romania, across the historical divides represented by the installation, and then the demise of the ...
Victor Rizescu
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Perversity, futility, complicity: Should democrats participate in autocratic elections?
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Electoral authoritarianism is receiving increasing attention from political scientists, yet it has been mostly ignored by political philosophers. This paper aims to fill some of this gap by considering whether it is morally permissibly for democrats to participate in autocratic elections as candidates or voters.
Zoltan Miklosi
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