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Political Opposition in Authoritarianism

Author : Rico Isaacs
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031065360
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Political Opposition in Authoritarianism written by Rico Isaacs and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-13 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How might political opposition shape regime outcomes over time in an authoritarian system? Most studies on political opposition in authoritarian contexts tend to focus on the agency of the regime over and above that of the political opposition. Using Albert Hirschman’s framework of exit, voice and loyalty, this book examines the case of Kazakhstani opposition agency over 30 years to explore the extent to which political opposition in Kazakhstan has shaped the dynamics of authoritarian regime development in the country. What the analysis reveals is that in Kazakhstan the regime has tended to treat formal institutional political opposition as neither a credible nor non-credible threat. Consequently, the Kazakhstani regime has always responded to opposition exit and voice with sanctions and institutional adaption which strengthened the regime in the short to medium term, but left them exposed to spontaneous, grassroots non-institutional opposition in the longer term. This spontaneous grassroots opposition emerged in Kazakhstan as a series of ‘shocks’ crystalised in the 2011 events in Zhanaozen, the 2016 land protests, the 2019 election protests and the events of ‘qandy qantar’ (bloody January) in 2022. What this book illustrates is how authoritarian regimes which treat opposition threats ambiguously are likely to end up in a continuous state of instability because the feedback provided by opposition agency disappears leaving the regime susceptible to spontaneous opposition.

Contentious Politics in the Middle East

Author : Holger Albrecht
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contentious Politics in the Middle East written by Holger Albrecht and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fine collection of empirically rich and thoughtful studies on a topic of considerable interest. Its fine-grained analyses of individual countries, organizations, and episodes of regime-opposition interaction make an important contribution to our understanding of authoritarian rule in the Middle East and beyond."--David Waldner, University of Virginia "Clearly addresses a gap in the literature on Middle East politics by focusing on various oppositions within different countries of the region. Deepens understanding of the concepts of opposition and contentious politics within authoritarian political systems."--Nicola Pratt, University of Warwick Scholarship examining the governments in the Middle East and North Africa rarely focuses on opposition movements, since those countries tend to be ruled by a centralized, often authoritarian government. However, even in an oppressive state, there are civil society and oppositional forces at work. The contributors to Contentious Politics in the Middle East reveal how such forces emerge and are manifested in nondemocratic states across the region. In most cases, the essays offer a comparative perspective, highlighting similarities across political borders. Providing historical context for current events, they examine the sociopolitical situations in Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain, Iraq, Morocco, Tunisia, Lebanon, and Algeria and analyze the role of Islam in Arab states' governments and in the opposition movements to them. They also demonstrate that not all opposition forces propose the overthrow of authority and point out the various forms opposition takes in societies that leave little room for political activism. The contributors to the volume are drawn from countries across three continents and bring backgrounds in political science, conflict resolution, and history. Challenging the assertion that state-society relations are limited to coercive top-down arrangements in authoritarian regimes, the book will inspire debate on the topic of contentious political participation within the region as well as in similar settings throughout the world.

Defeating Authoritarian Leaders in Postcommunist Countries

Author : Valerie J. Bunce
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107006856
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Defeating Authoritarian Leaders in Postcommunist Countries written by Valerie J. Bunce and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1998 to 2005, six elections took place in postcommunist Europe that had the surprising outcome of empowering the opposition and defeating authoritarian incumbents or their designated successors. Valerie J. Bunce and Sharon L. Wolchik compare these unexpected electoral breakthroughs. They draw three conclusions. First, the opposition was victorious because of the hard and creative work of a transnational network composed of local opposition and civil society groups, members of the international democracy assistance community and graduates of successful electoral challenges to authoritarian rule in other countries. Second, the remarkable run of these upset elections reflected the ability of this network to diffuse an ensemble of innovative electoral strategies across state boundaries. Finally, elections can serve as a powerful mechanism for democratic change. This is especially the case when civil society is strong, the transfer of political power is through constitutional means, and opposition leaders win with small mandates.

Authoritarian Party Systems: Party Politics In Autocratic Regimes, 1945-2019

Author : Grigorii V Golosov
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 1800611188
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (6 download)

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Book Synopsis Authoritarian Party Systems: Party Politics In Autocratic Regimes, 1945-2019 by : Grigorii V Golosov

Download or read book Authoritarian Party Systems: Party Politics In Autocratic Regimes, 1945-2019 written by Grigorii V Golosov and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the gradual slowing down of the 'third wave of democratization,' electoral authoritarianism is rapidly emerging as a dominant form of contemporary autocracy. Political parties play a key role within the political and institutional structures of electoral autocracies. Pro-regime parties provide the dictatorial executive with electoral and legislative tools of sustaining power. At the same time, permitted opposition parties, while normally incapable of challenging the regime, are important for regime sustainability because they perform such vital functions as co-opting actual or potential opposition groups, facilitating power-sharing, and mobilizing electoral participation. The interactions among the dominant parties and the permitted opposition parties, if displaying sustainable cross-temporal patterns, constitute authoritarian party systems.Authoritarian Party Systems provides a theoretical discussion of electoral authoritarianism with special reference to authoritarian party systems; a methodological overview of party system research with special reference to the problems caused by the authoritarian nature of the observed party systems; a comprehensive cross-regional and historical overview of authoritarian party systems; a quantitative analysis of their structural characteristics, including fragmentation, party system format, volatility, and nationalization; and in-depth discussions of the political regime determinants of authoritarian party systems and of the interplay between party systems and other components of the authoritarian institutional order. Quantitative analysis has been performed on an original database comprising cases of party-structured authoritarian regimes between 1945-2019. This content of the book is illustrated by case studies drawn from across the spectrum of contemporary authoritarian regimes.

Raging Against the Machine

Author : Holger Albrecht
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815652267
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Raging Against the Machine written by Holger Albrecht and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Albrecht’s work presents a comprehensive account of contemporary Egyptian politics, with a particular focus on the years 2002-2007. The text contains a theoretical dimension that considers the role political opposition and the core working mechanisms of state-society relations under authoritarian rule.

New Authoritarianism

Author : Jerzy J. Wiatr
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
ISBN 13 : 3847412493
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book New Authoritarianism written by Jerzy J. Wiatr and published by Verlag Barbara Budrich. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authos deal with comparative aspects of contemporary authoritarianism. Authoritarian tendencies have appeared in several “old democracies” but their main successes take place in several states which departed from dictatorial regimes recently. The book contains case-studies of contemporary Hungarian, Kenyan, Polish, Russian and Turkish regimes.

Egyptian Politics

Author : Maye Kassem
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781588262479
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Egyptian Politics written by Maye Kassem and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nature of personal authoritarian rule in Egypt has remained virtually unchanged for over five decades. Maye Kassem traces the shaping of contemporary Egyptian politics, considering why authoritarian rule has been so resilient and assessing why it hassurvived.

Authoritarian Elections and Opposition Groups in the Arab World

Author : Gail J. Buttorff
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331992186X
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Book Synopsis Authoritarian Elections and Opposition Groups in the Arab World by : Gail J. Buttorff

Download or read book Authoritarian Elections and Opposition Groups in the Arab World written by Gail J. Buttorff and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how opposition groups respond to the dilemma posed by authoritarian elections in the Arab World, with specific focus on Jordan and Algeria. While scholars have investigated critical questions such as why authoritarian rulers would hold elections and whether such elections lead to further political liberalization, there has been comparatively little work on the strategies adopted by opposition groups during authoritarian elections. Nevertheless, we know their strategic choices can have important implications for the legitimacy of the electoral process, reform, democratization, and post-election conflicts. This project fills in an important gap in our understanding of opposition politics under authoritarianism by offering an explanation for the range of strategies adopted by opposition groups in the face of contentious elections in the Arab World.

Electoral Authoritarianism

Author : Andreas Schedler
Publisher : L. Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Electoral Authoritarianism written by Andreas Schedler and published by L. Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, electoral authoritarianism represents the most common form of political regime in the developing world - and the one we know least about. Filling in the lacuna, this book presents cutting-edge research on the internal dynamics of electoral authoritarian regimes.

Authoritarian Backlash

Author : Thomas Ambrosio
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317177096
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Authoritarian Backlash written by Thomas Ambrosio and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authoritarian Russia has adopted five strategies to preserve the Kremlin's political power: insulate, bolster, subvert, redefine and coordinate. Thomas Ambrosio examines each of these in turn, all of which seek to counter or undermine regional democratic trends both at home and throughout the former Soviet Union. Policies such as these are of great concern to the growing literature on how autocratic regimes are becoming more active in their resistance to democracy. Through detailed case studies of each strategy, this book makes significant contributions to our understandings of Russian domestic and foreign policies, democratization theory and the policy challenges associated with democracy promotion.

Authoritarianism

Author : Erica Frantz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190880228
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Authoritarianism written by Erica Frantz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the spread of democratization following the Cold War's end, all signs indicate that we are living through an era of resurgent authoritarianism. Around 40 percent of the world's people live under some form of authoritarian rule, and authoritarian regimes govern about a third of the world's countries. In Authoritarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Erica Frantz guides us through today's authoritarian wave, explaining how it came to be and what its features are. She also looks at authoritarians themselves, focusing in particular on the techniques they use to take power, the strategies they use to survive, and how they fall. Understanding how politics works in authoritarian regimes and recognizing the factors that either give rise to them or trigger their downfall is ever-more important given current global trends, and this book paves the ways for such an understanding. An essential primer on the topic, Authoritarianism provides a clear and penetrating overview of one of the most important-and worrying-developments in contemporary world politics.

Competitive Authoritarianism

Author : Steven Levitsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139491482
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Competitive Authoritarianism written by Steven Levitsky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a detailed study of 35 cases in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and post-communist Eurasia, this book explores the fate of competitive authoritarian regimes between 1990 and 2008. It finds that where social, economic, and technocratic ties to the West were extensive, as in Eastern Europe and the Americas, the external cost of abuse led incumbents to cede power rather than crack down, which led to democratization. Where ties to the West were limited, external democratizing pressure was weaker and countries rarely democratized. In these cases, regime outcomes hinged on the character of state and ruling party organizations. Where incumbents possessed developed and cohesive coercive party structures, they could thwart opposition challenges, and competitive authoritarian regimes survived; where incumbents lacked such organizational tools, regimes were unstable but rarely democratized.

Authoritarianism and Opposition in South Korea

Author : Hak-kyu Son
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415035507
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Authoritarianism and Opposition in South Korea written by Hak-kyu Son and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Rise of Sophisticated Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia

Author : Lee Morgenbesser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108638872
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Sophisticated Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia written by Lee Morgenbesser and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element offers a way to understand the evolution of authoritarian rule in Southeast Asia. The theoretical framework is based on a set of indicators (judged for their known advantages and mimicry of democratic attributes) as well as a typology (conceptualized as two discreet categories of 'retrograde' and 'sophisticated' authoritarianism). Working with an original dataset, the empirical results reveal vast differences within and across authoritarian regimes in Southeast Asia, but also a discernible shift towards sophisticated authoritarianism over time. The Element concludes with a reflection of its contribution and a statement on its generalizability.

The Politics of Repression Under Authoritarian Rule

Author : Dag Tanneberg
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030354776
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Repression Under Authoritarian Rule written by Dag Tanneberg and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does authoritarian rule benefit from political repression? This book claims that it does, if restrictions and violence, two fundamentally different forms of repression, complement each other. Based on an in-depth quantitative analysis of the post-Second World War period, the author draws three central conclusions. Firstly, restrictions and violence offer different advantages, suffer from different drawbacks, and matter differently for identical problems of authoritarian rule. Secondly, empirical data supports complementarity only as long as political repression preempts political opposition. Lastly, despite its conceptual centrality, political repression has little influence on the outcomes of authoritarian politics. The book also offers new insights into questions such as whether repression hinders successful political campaigns or whether it is more likely to trigger coups d’état.

Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Postcommunist World

Author : Valerie Bunce
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139483862
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Postcommunist World written by Valerie Bunce and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-30 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Postcommunist World examines three waves of democratic change that took place in eleven different former Communist nations. It draws important conclusions about the rise, development, and breakdown of both democracy and dictatorship in each country, providing a comparative perspective on the post-Communist world. The first democratic wave to sweep this region encompasses the rapid rise of democratic regimes from 1989 to 1992 from the ashes of Communism and Communist states. The second wave arose with accession to the European Union (from 2004 to 2007) and the third, with the electoral defeat of dictators (1996 to 2005) in Croatia, Serbia, Georgia, and Ukraine. The authors of each chapter in this volume examine both internal and external dimensions of both democratic success and failure.

Multiparty Elections in Authoritarian Regimes

Author : Susanne Michalik
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3658095113
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Multiparty Elections in Authoritarian Regimes written by Susanne Michalik and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susanne Michalik analyzes why authoritarian regimes allow for multiparty elections and how they affect political outcomes. Even though their introduction rarely leads to a change in power, such elections should not be regarded as mere window-dressing. She argues that competitive elections are installed to deal with a split among the incumbent elite and to facilitate the formation of a new ruling coalition. In a cross-national study the author finds that elections matter and the ruling party does more than just manipulate election results in order to be reelected. Incumbents provide a mix of public goods and targeted public goods depending on the level of electoral competition they are experiencing. The outcome of authoritarian multiparty elections in the form of the legislature’s party composition also has an effect on the regime’s international relations in the form of foreign aid allocation.