The Routledge Handbook of Autocratization

This handbook comprehensively and systematically explores the current understanding, and unchartered research paths, of autocratization.

The Routledge Handbook of Autocratization comprehensively and systematically explores the current understanding, and unchartered research paths, of autocratization.

With wide-reaching regional coverage and expert analysis from Asia, North and South America, Europa, the Middle East, and North Africa, this handbook reveals cross-country, and cross-regional, analysis and insights and presents in-depth explanations and consequences of autocratization. Arranged in five thematic parts, chapters explore the basic aspects of conceptualization, theorization, and measurement of autocratization; the role of various political and non-political actors as perpetrators, supporters, bystanders, or defenders of democracy against autocratization processes; and the consequences across various policy fields. Showcasing cutting-edge research developments, the handbook illustrates the deeply complex nature of the field, examining important topics in need of renewed consideration at a time of growing concerns for democracy and the global spread of authoritarian challenges to democracy.

The Routledge Handbook of Autocratization will be a key reference for those interested in, and studying authoritarianism, democratization, human rights, governance, democracy and more broadly comparative politics, and regional/area studies.

Chapter 2 and Chapter 11 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 International license (chapter 2) and Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 International license (Chapter 11).

Autorentext

Aurel Croissant is Professor at the Institute of Political Science, Heidelberg University, Germany, and Visiting Professor at GSIS Ewha Womans University, South Korea.

Luca Tomini is FNRS Research Associate and Professor of Political Science at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium.

Inhalt

1. Introduction Part 1: Concepts, Approaches and Measurements 2. Rethinking Democratic Subversion 3. Conceptualizing autocratization 4. Measuring autocratization 5. Identifying episodes of autocratization Part 2: Structures and Institutions 6. Economic development and autocratization 7. Inequality and autocratization 8. Social classes and autocratization 9. Past legacies and autocratization 10. Polarization and autocratization 11. Ideological modules of autocratization 12. Elections and autocratization 13. Autocratization and the three faces of judicial power 14. Autocratization by legal means in weak presidential democracies 15. The Internet and autocratization 16. Subnational dimensions of autocratization 17. The international order and autocratization Part 3: Actors 18. International actors and autocratization 19. Parties, government leaders, and autocratization 20. Populism and autocratization 21. Religious actors and autocratization 22. Civil society and autocratization 23. Economic actors and autocratization 24. The Military and autocratization Part 4: Consequences and Impact 25. Autocratization and development 26. Administrative backsliding 27. Autocratization and health outcomes 28. Autocratization and gender politics 29. Autocratization and environmental performance 30. Autocratization and ethnic relations 31. Autocratization and political conflict Part 5: Regional Perspectives 32. Western Europe 33. Central and Eastern Europe 34. Western Balkans 35. Post-Soviet States 36. Latin America 37. Middle East and North Africa 38. Sub-Saharan Africa 39. East and Southeast Asia 40. South Asia