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How do dictatorships justify their rule and with what effects? This
and similar questions guide the contributions to this edited
volume. Despite the recent resurgence of political science
scholarship on autocratic resilience, many questions remain
unanswered about the role of legitimation in contemporary
non-democracies and its relationship with neighbouring concepts,
like ideology, censorship, and consent. The overarching thesis of
this book is that autocratic legitimation has causal influence on
numerous outcomes of interest in authoritarian politics. These
outcomes include regime resilience, challenger-state interactions,
the procedures and operations of elections, social service
provision, and the texture of everyday life in autocracies.
Researchers of autocratic politics will benefit from the rich
contributions of this volume. The chapters in this book were
originally published in a special issue of Contemporary Politics.
How do dictatorships justify their rule and with what effects? This
and similar questions guide the contributions to this edited
volume. Despite the recent resurgence of political science
scholarship on autocratic resilience, many questions remain
unanswered about the role of legitimation in contemporary
non-democracies and its relationship with neighbouring concepts,
like ideology, censorship, and consent. The overarching thesis of
this book is that autocratic legitimation has causal influence on
numerous outcomes of interest in authoritarian politics. These
outcomes include regime resilience, challenger-state interactions,
the procedures and operations of elections, social service
provision, and the texture of everyday life in autocracies.
Researchers of autocratic politics will benefit from the rich
contributions of this volume. The chapters in this book were
originally published in a special issue of Contemporary Politics.
What makes autocratic regimes vulnerable? Why, in times of crisis,
do some of these regimes break down while others weather the storm?
This is the puzzle addressed in Crisis in Autocratic Regimes.
Taking a long-term perspective, the authors focus not on sudden
shocks and ruptures, but instead on gradual processes of
disintegration as they unfold over time.
In The Two Logics of Autocratic Rule, Gerschewski argues that all
autocracies must fulfil three conditions to survive: the
co-optation of key elites into their inner sanctum, the repression
of potential dissent, and popular legitimation. Yet, how these
conditions complement each other depends on alternative logics:
over-politicization and de-politicization. While the former aims at
mobilizing people via inflating a friend-foe distinction, the
latter renders the people passive and apathetic, relying instead on
performance-driven forms of legitimation. Gerschewski supports this
two-logics theory with the empirical analysis of forty-five
autocratic regime episodes in East Asia since the end of World War
II. In simultaneously synthesizing and extending existing research
on non-democracies, this book proposes an innovative way to
understand autocratic rule that goes beyond the classic distinction
between totalitarian and authoritarian regimes. It will be of
interest to scholars and students of comparative politics,
political theory, and East Asian politics.
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