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Authoritarian resurgence: towards a unified analytical framework

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 July 2019

Andrea Cassani Open the ORCID record for Andrea Cassani [Opens in a new window]  and
Luca Tomini
Andrea Cassani*
Affiliation:
Department of Social and Political Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Conservatorio 7, 20122 Milano, Italy
Luca Tomini
Affiliation:
Centre d'Etude de la Vie Politique, Faculté de Philosophie et Sciences Sociales, Université libre de Bruxelles, avenue Jeanne, 44, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium
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*Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

This introductory note to the Special Issue ‘Autocracy Strikes Back: Authoritarian Resurgence in the Early 21st Century’ situates this collection of articles in the burgeoning literature on authoritarian resurgence, and illustrates the conceptual terrain on which these articles make their contribution. In this regard, we discuss autocratization, authoritarian resilience, democratic transition failure, and autocracy-to-autocracy transition as processes of regime change representing different ways in which authoritarian resurgence may advance. Relatedly, we clarify how these processes of regime change differ from each other and provide a few basic coordinates to frame their comparative analysis.

Keywords

Authoritarian resilienceauthoritarian resurgenceautocracy-to-autocracy transitionautocratizationfailed democratic transition
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Italian Political Science Review / Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica , Volume 49 , Special Issue 2: Autocracy Strikes Back: Authoritarian Resurgence in the Early 21st Century , July 2019 , pp. 115 - 120
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Copyright © Società Italiana di Scienza Politica 2019 

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