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Why Do Autocrats Need Elections? Political Science about the Role of Elections in Authoritarianism

open access: yesСравнительная политика, 2020
Relatively recently, students of authoritarianism have not paid much attention to institutions. It was believed that since authoritarian rule is generally an arbitrariness, its institutionalism is not really important.
Yu. S. Medvedev
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Determining the domain of attraction of hybrid non-linear systems using maximal Lyapunov functions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
summary:In this article a method is presented to find systematically the domain of attraction (DOA) of hybrid non-linear systems. It has already been shown that there exists a sequence of special kind of Lyapunov functions $V_n$ in a rational functional ...
Hangos, Katalin M.   +3 more
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Technocratic Populism in Hybrid Regimes: Georgia on My Mind and in My Pocket

open access: yesPolitics and Governance, 2020
Most studies of technocratic populism have focused on democracies under stress (e.g., Italy, Czech Republic). This article builds on and extends these studies by analyzing a hybrid regime—post-Soviet Georgia—and argues that technocratic populism in this ...
David Aprasidze, David S. Siroky
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On the Origin and Consolidation of Hybrid Regimes: The State of Democracy in the Caucasus [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The regimes in Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, while broadly conforming to the category of “hybrid regimes,” should not be treated as a half-way stage in a process of transition to democracy, but rather as stable, based on the institutional structures ...
Zürcher, Christoph, Wheatley, Jonathan
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Does the state of emergency create an opportunity for democratic erosion? Lessons from post-communist Central and Southeast Europe

open access: yesPolitics in Central Europe, 2023
The paper’s key puzzle is the variation in lockdown-related democratic decline in the region of Central and Southeast Europe given the incumbents’ ideological and regime (dis)similarity.
Pavlović Dušan
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Post-Soviet hybrid-regimes: Elements of stability [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 gave birth to many new independent states. Many of these states have developed regimes with both democratic and authoritarian elements, but they are not transitional democracies or transitional authoritarian ...
Diver, McKensie
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Patchwork stability as an analytical category: rethinking political stability in hybrid regimes

open access: yesFrontiers in Political Science
Contemporary political systems increasingly operate under conditions of institutional fragmentation, contested legitimacy and recurring crisis without necessarily experiencing systemic collapse.
Maryana Prokop
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A Hybrid Approach to Regime Shift Detection

open access: yesJournal for Person-Oriented Research, 2019
In this article, we propose a method for the analysis of regime shifts in frequency data. This method identifies those points in the development of a process for which deviations are most extreme. Based on a statistical model, functions are estimated that describe the process.
Alexander von Eye   +2 more
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Internationalized regimes: a second dimension of regime hybridity [PDF]

open access: yesDemocratization, 2013
Traditional approaches have conceptualized political regimes almost exclusively with reference to domestic-level political factors. However, many current and historical political regimes have entailed a major role for international actors, and in some cases the external influence has been so great that regimes have become internationalized.
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Migration and Hybrid Political Regimes: Navigating the Legal Landscape in Russia

open access: yesNordisk Østforum, 2021
Migration and Hybrid Political Regimes: Navigating the Legal Landscape in Russia by Rustram Urinboyev (University of California Press 2021) is reviewed by Anna-Liisa Heusala, of the University of Helsinki, Aleksanteri Institute - Finnish Centre for ...
Anna-Liisa Heusala
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