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Instructors: Dr. phil. Jared Sonnicksen
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proseminar
Org-unit: Dept. 02 - Institute of Political Science
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PS2Vergl
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2
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German
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Despite the worldwide spread of democracy during the last thirty years, one third of the world’s population still lives under diverse forms of autocratic rule. An already superficial overview of autocratic regimes shows a diverging and unequal picture. There are, on the one hand, apparently stable and rather successful regimes like China, Russia or Singapore. The current protest movements and revolutions in the Arab world, on the other hand, point to inherent instability of autocratic rule. This course in comparative politics is intended to examine stability and change of authoritarian regimes and concentrates on the subsequent issues:
- Identification, definition, and categorisation of authoritarian regimes.
- Legitimation of authoritarian rule.
- Requirements of authoritarian rule: political, economical, and cultural conditions of authoritarianism.
- Politics and polity in authoritarian regimes.
- Regime transformation: Conditions and modes of change; what comes after the termination of authoritarian rule?
Literature:
Albrecht, Holger/Rolf Frankenberger (Hg.) 2010: Autoritarismus Reloaded. Neuere Ansätze und Erkenntnisse der Autokratieforschung. Baden-Baden.
Brooker, Paul 20092: Non-Democratic Regimes. Theory, Government and Politics, New York.
Diamond, Larry J. 2008: The Democratic Rollback. The Resurgence of the Predatory State. Foreign Affairs 87, 2: 36-48.
Hague, Rod/Martin Harrop 20108: Comparative Government and Politics. An Introduction, (Chapter 6: Authoritarian Rule) Houndmills, Basingstoke: 99-117.
Köllner, Patrick 2008: Autoritäre Regime – Ein Überblick über die jüngere Literatur. Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft 2, 2: 351-366.
Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Baden-Württemberg (Hg.) 2010: Autoritäre Regime. Bürger im Staat 60, 1. (Download: http://www.buergerimstaat.de/1_10/regime.pdf).
Schedler, Andreas (Hg.) 2006. Electoral Authoritarianism: The Dynamics of Unfree Competition, Boulder.
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