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  • 8 - A Systematic Test

  • from Part III - Empirical Test
  • Johannes Gerschewski, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung
  • Book:
    The Two Logics of Autocratic Rule
    Published online:
    06 April 2023
    Print publication:
    13 April 2023, pp 176-212

  • Summary

    This chapter puts the two-logics theory under a thorough and systematic empirical test. It conducts a comprehensive macro-qualitative comparison of all autocratic regime episodes in East Asia since 1945. It argues that the stability of autocratic rule can be explained by logically reducing possible configurations to a small number of stability recipes. It singles out soft repression as the most crucial and polyvalent INUS condition for stabilizing autocratic rule and provides empirical support for the two logics of over-politicization and de-politicization. Particular emphasis is paid to contextualizing the empirical results. In methodical terms, it relies on Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) that is particularly capable of detecting conjunctural causation, making it the best-suited method for the book’s configurational argument.