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From:Georgetown Law Journal (Vol. 110, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedIn his inaugural address, President Joe Biden praised the "resilience of our Constitution" for defeating a riotous mob that attempted to overrun the Capitol and stop the certification of Electoral College votes that...
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From:Contemporary Southeast Asia (Vol. 43, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn July 2018, the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) claimed 77 per cent of the popular vote in national elections, winning all 125 seats in the country's National Assembly. The CPP had ran effectively unopposed after the...
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From:American Journal of International Law (Vol. 116, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedSince about 2008, the rise of autocracy and the decline of democracy has threatened the modern liberal international order. To counter the threat of authoritarian international law, the United States should collaborate...
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From:Harvard International Review (Vol. 31, Issue 4)In the years since communism fell across Eastern Europe, political scientists have tracked authoritarianism with zeal and frustration. While looking forward to the fall of regimes, they have watched dictators twist...
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From:Latin American Research Review (Vol. 55, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis article examines support for the restriction of human rights in Latin America, arguing that rising crime rates and personal experience with crime are only part of the story. Despite an emphasis on the protection of...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedA challenge for the identification of the core components of a beliefs system is the topological examination of these components within the overall structure of the said system. By modeling beliefs as nodes of...
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From:Demokratizatsiya (Vol. 22, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAbstract. Many scholars argue that the political regime in contemporary Russia exemplifies the global phenomenon of electoral authoritarianism. But, what are the major features of such a regime in the case of Russia?...
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From:Journal of International Affairs (Vol. 71, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe current global resurgence of illiberal and anti-democratic attitudes stands in sharp contrast to the optimism displayed from the 1970s to 1990s. The author recounts the historic development of American political...
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From:Studies In Comparative International Development (Vol. 34, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis article applies Guillermo O'Donnell's Bureaucratic-Authoritarian (BA) model to analyze the interruption of Chile's democracy in 1973, and the gradual return to civilian rule since 1989. It argues that the formation...
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From:International Social Science Review (Vol. 83, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedPratt, Nicola. Democracy & Authoritarianism in the Arab World. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007. 236 pages. Paper, $22. Democracy & Authoritarianism in the Arab World attempts to debunk the oft-bandied...
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From:World Affairs (Vol. 157, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedNeo-conservatives and neo-authoritarians in China have increasingly relied on Western, non-Marxist political sources of legitimacy when considering their role in China after the rule of Deng Xiaoping. The reliance on...
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From:University of Pennsylvania Law Review (Vol. 168, Issue 6)American courts are at times required to interpret the laws of authoritarian countries. Though such cases are increasingly common, they remain--even today--a poorly understood feature of modern adjudication. This Article...
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From:Journal of International Affairs (Vol. 73, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSilence and inaction are a choice. It has been more than a decade since the 2009 protests in Iran, in which the people rose up and voted to shake off the oppressive bonds of Islamic theocracy and demand their God-given...
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From:Political Science Quarterly (Vol. 112, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedLatin America's susceptibility to authoritarian government and the fragility of Latin American democracies have long preoccupied students of Latin America. Explanations by historians and social scientists have often...
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From:Anthropology of the Middle East (Vol. 3, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedUzbekistan offers a case study of a country that has blocked the liberalisation of its economy and that is being marginalised in the world market as well as in the international community. Even still, two typical...
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From:Latin American Research Review (Vol. 51, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis article tells the story of how an important group of social scientists in Latin America turned away from the problems of underdevelopment to the possibilities for democracy. It focuses on a network of leading Latin...
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From:Political Science Quarterly (Vol. 126, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedCompetitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes After the Cold War by Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2010. 517 pp. $29.99. Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way's impressive volume...
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From:Demokratizatsiya (Vol. 24, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: This article analyzes the 2014 Russian intervention in Ukraine as a prime example of autocratic diffusion-proofing. First, it provides examples to flesh out the relatively new concept of diffusion-proofing....
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From:Current Psychology (Vol. 39, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe aim of this study was to analyze the psychometric properties of the subtle and blatant prejudice scale toward indigenous people in Argentina and its relationship with right wing authoritarianism, social dominance...
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From:Journal of Third World Studies (Vol. 30, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedINTRODUCTION There is a well known tendency for oil and mineral wealth to be associated with antidemocratic characteristics in the political structure of a society. (1) Indeed, the concept of the resource curse--that...