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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Autocratization"”.
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AUTOCRATIZATION AND PUBLIC OPINION ONDEMOCRACY: INSIGHTS FROM TURKEY
… have documented a significant global surge in autocratization. While much research addresses the drivers of this wave, its consequences—especially for public opinion—remain underexplored. This gap is critical, given that regime types and transitions shape citizens' public opinion on democracy, …
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Understanding hybrid regimes: How are they maintained and operated?
While there have been periods of autocratization before, the current crisis of democracy—or, as it is often called, the “third wave of autocratization (Lührmann & Lindberg, 2019)— has some important characteristics setting it apart from previous ones. Likewise, while autocracies have always been …
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Conditional and Differential? Locating the Role of Civil Society in Anti-corruption Policy Outcomes
… is part of the broader democratic backsliding or autocratization that has pervaded even long standing and consolidated democracies. Locating the place of civil society given such contexts poses a daunting challenge, as one may ask: if democratic grounds are backsliding, where are anti-corruption …
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ASSESSING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION AS A MILITANT DEMOCRACY AGENT: PROMOTING DEMOCRACY IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD
… external relations amid renewed, heterogeneous autocratization across Europe and its neighbourhood. It challenges linear narratives of democratic advance or uniform recession, arguing instead that democratic erosion varies in trajectory, scope, and timing, and that EU responses differ across …
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Does Selectorate Size Matter?: How the selectorate size of authoritarian regimes impacts trade levels
States are currently experiencing an increase in autocratization and support for authoritarian leaders and policies. This change in domestic politics can impact states' interactions in the international system. One of the changes that may be observed in state behavior is the willingness of states …
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CHINA'S BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE (BRI): CHINESE LINKAGE AND LEVERAGE, DEMOCRATIZATION, AND REGIME CHANGE IN ASIA
… levels of democracy, and changing nature of autocratization, this research examines if the increased Chinese engagement under BRI poses challenges to democratization in partner regimes. This thesis puts forth a novel and multidimensional conceptual framework of ‘Chinese Linkage and Leverage’ …
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The Affective Politics of Democratic Erosion: Explaining Mass Support for Executive Aggrandizement
<p>During the last two decades, executive aggrandizement has emerged as one of the chief threats to democratic regimes. In various countries, ranging from Turkey and Hungary to Venezuela, elected incumbents used their democratic mandates to gradually dismantle democratic institutions. Similar …