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This unique two-volume work takes stock of recent research and provides new insights into autocratic rule in the early twenty-first century. This first volume discusses concepts and measurements of autocracy as well as determinants and strategies of autocratic regime survival.
This book is an amalgam of articles from the journals
Demo
List of contents
1. Introduction 2. Authoritarian regime types revisited: updated data in comparative perspective 3. Classifying political regimes revisited: legitimation and durability 4. The three pillars of stability: legitimation, repression, and co-optation in autocratic regimes 5. Informal Institutions in Autocratic Regimes: Concept, Analytical Framework, and the Case of the Communist Party of China 6. Four Basic Types of Autocracy and Their Strategies of Legitimation 7. Ideology after the end of ideology. China and the quest for autocratic legitimation 8. Elections in Authoritarian Regimes: Comparing Post-Soviet Cases 9. Populism and competitive authoritarianism in non-democratic elections
About the author
Aurel Croissant is Professor of Political Science at the Institute of Political Science, Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg, Germany.
Steffen Kailitz is Senior Researcher at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism.
Patrick Köllner is Director of the Institute of Asian Studies (GIGA) and Professor of Political Science at Hamburg University, Germany.
Stefan Wurster is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Political Science, Ruprecht-Karls-University, Germany.
Summary
This unique two-volume work takes stock of recent research and provides new insights into autocratic rule in the early twenty-first century. This first volume discusses concepts and measurements of autocracy as well as determinants and strategies of autocratic regime survival. This book is an amalgam of articles from the journals Demo
