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Autocracies at critical junctures: a model for the study of dictatorial regimes

Year: 2011

Type: article

Abstract: "How can authoritarianism in an age of democratization survive? What are the critical junctures when a dictatorship becomes less stable and potentially fails? In a project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), three pillars of stability of autocratic rule are identified: legitimacy, co-optation, and repression. Referring to historical institutionalism's key concept of critical juncture, the hypothesis is based on the observation that these junctures become regime threatening when a serious crisis in one pillar occurs and the two other pillars can no longer sufficiently compensate this instability." (author's abstract)

Source: Social Science Open Access Repository (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)

Authors: Wolfgang Merkel, Johannes Gerschewski

Language: English

Topic: Political Conflict and Governance

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2287824769

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Cites: 3

Cited by: 1

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