ISBN:
9781461465379
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (X, 244 p. 7 illus, digital)
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Buchausg. u.d.T. Hess, Steve Authoritarian landscapes
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Hess, Steve Authoritarian landscapes
Keywords:
Social sciences
;
Social Sciences
;
Social sciences
;
Autokratie
;
Autoritärer Staat
;
Widerstandsfähigkeit
;
Protestbewegung
;
Politische Mobilisierung
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Autokratie
;
Autoritärer Staat
;
Resilienz
;
Protestbewegung
;
Politische Mobilisierung
Abstract:
The turbulent year of 2011 has brought the appearance of mass popular unrest and the collapse of long lived autocratic regimes in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and possibly Syria. The sudden and unanticipated fall of these regimes - often thought of as exemplars of authoritarian resilience - has brought much of the conventional wisdom on the durability and vulnerability of nondemocratic regimes into question. This book seeks to advance the existing literature by treating the autocratic state not as a unitary actor characterized by strength or weakness but rather as a structure or terrain that can alte
Description / Table of Contents:
Authoritarian Landscapes; Preface; Contents; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Sources of Authoritarian Resilience; 1.2 Contentious Politics; 1.3 The Research Question; 1.4 Organization of the Book; 2 Authoritarian Landscapes; 2.1 Defining Decentralization; 2.2 Functional Decentralization; 2.3 Decentralization of Coercion; 2.4 Decentralization: Causes and Outcomes; 2.5 Decentralization, Institutional Landscaping, and Popular Mobilization; 3 Single-Party Regimes; 3.1 Cases in Comparison; 4 Taiwan; 4.1 Functional Centralization; 4.2 Centralization of Coercion; 4.3 Patterns of Popular Contention
Description / Table of Contents:
4.4 Environmental Contention and the 1986 Lukang Rebellion4.5 Labor Contention and Working Class Activism; 4.6 1986: A Political Breakthrough; 5 China; 5.1 Functional Decentralization; 5.2 Decentralization of Coercion; 5.3 Patterns of Popular Contention; 5.4 Labor Contention; 5.5 November 2008 Taxi Driver Strikes; 5.6 Summer 2010 Factory Protests; 5.7 Environmental Contention; 5.8 Localized Protest and Authoritarian Resilience; 6 Personalist Regimes; 6.1 Cases in Comparison; 7 The Philippines; 7.1 Functional Centralization; 7.2 Centralization of Coercion; 7.3 Patterns of Popular Contention
Description / Table of Contents:
7.4 Labor Protests7.5 Political Breakthrough; 8 Kazakhstan; 8.1 Functional Decentralization; 8.2 Decentralization of Coercion; 8.3 Patterns of Popular Contention; 8.3.1 Formal Opposition; 8.3.2 Popular Opposition and Labor Protests; 8.4 Localized Protest and Authoritarian Resilience; 9 Conclusion; 9.1 Bringing the State Back In; 9.2 Revolutions from "Out of Nowhere"; 9.3 Decentralization and Scale Shift: The Missing Variables; 9.4 The Limits and Possibilities of Decentralized Autocracy; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4614-6537-9
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