Paradoxes of the New Authoritarianism

Paradoxes of the New Authoritarianism

In this article, which is adapted from the seventh annual Seymour Martin Lipset Lecture on Democracy in the World, Ivan Krastev addresses three main questions: 1) Why are authoritarian regimes surviving in the age of democratization? 2) Why did political science fail to anticipate the resilience of...

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Published in:Journal of democracy Vol. 22; no. 2; pp. 5 - 16
Main Author: Krastev, Ivan
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 01-04-2011
Subjects:
Authoritarian regimes
Authoritarianism
Authoritarianism (Political Ideology)
Democracy
Democratization
Lipset, Martin
Lipset, Seymour Martin
Political Science
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Regime transition
Society
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Summary:In this article, which is adapted from the seventh annual Seymour Martin Lipset Lecture on Democracy in the World, Ivan Krastev addresses three main questions: 1) Why are authoritarian regimes surviving in the age of democratization? 2) Why did political science fail to anticipate the resilience of these regimes? and 3) Why it is so difficult to resist contemporary authoritarianism?
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ISSN:1045-5736
1086-3214
1086-3214
DOI:10.1353/jod.2011.0027