1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook 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 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 license.
1. Introduction
Aurel Croissant and Luca Tomini
Part 1: Concepts, Approaches and Measurements
2. Rethinking Democratic Subversion (from the Perspective of Actors)
Andreas Schedler
3. Conceptualizing autocratization
Luca Tomini
4. Measuring autocratization
Lars Lott and Aurel Croissant
5. Identifying episodes of autocratization
Vanessa Boese-Schlosser, Amanda B. Edgell, Sebastian Hellmeier, Seraphine F. Maerz, Yuko Sato, Matthew C. Wilson, and Staffan I. Lindberg
Part 2: Structures and Institutions
6. Economic development and autocratization
Carl Henrik Knutsen and Sven-Erik Skaaning
7. Inequality and autocratization·
Christian Houle
8. Social classes and autocratization
Gábor Scheiring
9. Past legacies and autocratization
Leonardo Morlino
10. Polarization and autocratization
Jennifer McCoy and Murat Somer
11. Ideological modules and autocratization
Zsolt Enyedi
12. Elections and autocratization
Sebastian Hellmeier and Elena Leuschner
13. Autocratization and the three faces of judicial power
Aziz Z. Huq
14. Autocratization by legal means in weak presidential democracies
Gabriel L. Negretto
15. The Internet and autocratization
Seraphine F. Maerz
16. Subnational dimensions of autocratization
Carlos Gervasoni
17. The international order and autocratization
Marianne Kneuer and Thomas Demmelhuber
Part 3: Actors
18. International actors and autocratization
Christian von Soest
19. Parties, government leaders, and autocratization
Claudio Balderacchi
20. Populism and autocratization
Keith Prushankin and Crístobal Rovira Kaltwasser
21. Religious actors and autocratization
Julia Leininger
22. Civil society and autocratization
Janjira Sombatpoonsiri
23. Economic actors and autocratization
Alexander Libman
24. The Military and autocratization
Aurel Croissant and David Kuehn
Part 4: Consequences and Impact
25. Autocratization and development
Masaaki Higashijima
26. Administrative backsliding
Michael W. Bauer
27. Autocratization and health outcomes
James W. McGuire
28. Autocratization and gender politics
Conny Roggeband and Andrea Krizsán
29. Autocratization and environmental performance
Jale Tosun and Simon Schaub
30. Autocratization and ethnic relations
Guido Panzano
31. Autocratization and political conflict
Christoph Trinn, Felix Schulte and Seraphine F. Maerz
Part 5: Regional Perspectives
32. Western Europe
Assem Dandashly and Eliyahu V. Sapir
33. Central and Eastern Europe
Séan Hanley and Licia Cianetti
34. Western Balkans
Branimir Staletovik and Florian Bieber
35. Post-Soviet States
Martin Brusis
36. Latin America
John Polga-Hecimovich
37. Middle East and North Africa·
Nadine Sika
38. Sub-Saharan Africa
Andrea Cassani, Giovanni Carbone, and Tiziana Corda
39. East and Southeast Asia
Yuko Kasuya and Yi-Ting Wang
40. South Asia
Šumit Ganguly
Biography
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.
“This ambitious collection succeeds at marrying breadth and depth. In addition to offering countless insights on the structures, actors, history, geography, and consequences of autocratization, it sets a compelling agenda for future research. Anyone seeking to understand autocratization will benefit from reading this handbook.”
Nancy Bermeo, Oxford University, UK
“Authoritarianism, autocratization, backsliding: these concepts have defined a wide-ranging and fecund research agenda. This collection gathers thoughtful essays by a 'who’s who' in the study of autocratization. The volume is organized in a particularly useful way, considering questions of conceptualization, measurement, and the causes as well as effects of backsliding and authoritarian regress. An added benefit is a cluster of essays that review the phenomenon through a regional lens, capturing nuances we can miss taking a global approach. An important and well-timed collection that surveys the most pressing political problem of our time.”
Stephan Haggard, University of California San Diego, USA
