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Tuesday, 13 May 2025
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WZB talk by Alessandro Ferrara, Yasemin Soysal and Alicia Vignali
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Tuesday, 13 May 2025
Start: 1:00 pm
Contact name
Swea Starke
swea.starke [at] wzb.eu
Visiting Researcher of the Research Group
fon
sebastian.soto-guerrero [at] wzb.eu
room
D 215
Student Assistant of the Research Department
marie.frank [at] wzb.eu
room
E 214
Critical Junctures and the Survival of Dictatorships. Explaining the Stability of Autocratic Regimes
Abstract
The ‘third wave of democratization’ left aside a considerable number of well-functioning autocracies. How has authoritarianism in an age of democratization been able to survive? We want to address three shortcomings in the literature: First, most of the studies rely on one-dimensional typologies, focusing on the structure of autocratic domination, but ignoring specific reproduction mechanisms of autocratic regimes. Second, studies juxtapose separate theoretical strands we seek to synthesize by linking structure and agency in an historical institutionalist approach. Third, little attention is paid to the genesis and development of institutions that bolster autocratic regimes.
Project Management
Research fields
Democracy
Duration
2011-2014
Funding
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DGF)