Authoritarian Gravity Centers (eBook, PDF)

A Cross-Regional Study of Authoritarian Promotion and Diffusion
Redaktion: Kneuer, Marianne; Demmelhuber, Thomas

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Produktbeschreibung

Employing a cross-regional approach, leading experts empirically test the concept of Authoritarian Gravity Centers (AGC) across Latin America, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Asia. This book is a vibrant and comprehensive contribution to the growing field of autocratization

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000072372
• Artikelnr.: 59492625

Autorenporträt

Marianne Kneuer is Professor for Political Science, Director of the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Hildesheim, Germany and current President of International Political Science Association (IPSA). Her research interests include studying comparative regime studies, quality of democracy, and democratization, especially the international dimension of democratization and of autocratization. Thomas Demmelhuber is Professor of Middle East Politics and Society at the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. Demmelhuber's research focuses on state, power, and politics in the Middle East from a comparative perspective, including that of international actors such as the European Union.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Concept 1. Autocratization and its Pull and Push Factors - A
Challenge for Comparative Research 2. Conceptualizing Authoritarian Gravity
Centers: Sources and Addressees, Mechanisms and Motives of Authoritarian
Pressure and Attraction Part II: Empirical Studies on Authoritarian Gravity
Centers 3. Kingdom of Gravity: Autocratic Promotion and Diffusion in Saudi
Arabia 4. Democratic Erosion and Autocratization in Latin America: The Role
of Venezuela as an Authoritarian Gravity Centre 5. Kazakhstan: A Possible
Future Authoritarian Gravity Centre? Part III: The International Dimension
of Authoritarianism Revisited 6. Russia's Effects on a Consolidated
Democracy: The Erosion of Democracy in Hungary and the Putin Model 7. Iran
and its Neighbors: Military Assistance as Support for Authoritarianism 8.
Networking with Chinese Characteristics: China's Party-to-Party Relations
in Asia 9. Spreading Cyber-Autocracy? The Shanghai Cooperation Organization
and the Diffusion of Norms of "Internet Sovereignty" Part IV:
Authoritarianism Gravity Centres in Cross-Regional Comparison 10.
Authoritarian Gravity Centres in Cross-Regional Comparison: Future Studies
and the International Dimension of Authoritarianism