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Authoritarian gravity centers : a cross-regional study of authoritarian promotion and diffusion / edited by Marianne Kneuer and Thomas Demmelhuber.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Conceptualising comparative politics ; 11.
- Conceptualising comparative politics : polities, peoples, and markets ; 11
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Authoritarianism.
- Democracy.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 304 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
- Summary:
- "Autocracies not only resist the global spread of democracy but are sources of autocratic influence and pressure. This book presents a conceptual model to understand, assess, and explain the promotion and diffusion of authoritarian elements. Employing a cross-regional approach, leading experts empirically test the concept of Authoritarian Gravity Centers (AGC) defined as "regimes that constitute a force of attraction and contagion for countries in geopolitical proximity". With an analysis extending across Latin America, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Asia, these AGCs are shown to be effective as active promoter (push) or as neutral source of attraction (pull). The authors contend that the influence of exogenous factors, along with international and regional contexts for the transformation of regime types, are vital to understand and analyze the transmission of autocratic institutional settings, ideas, norms, procedures and practices, thus explaining the regional clustering of autocracies. It is the regional context in which external actors can influence authoritarian processes most effectively. Authoritarian Gravity Centers is a vibrant and comprehensive contribution to the growing field of autocratization, which will be of great interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of Comparative Area Studies, Illiberalism, International Politics and studies of democracy"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Authoritarian gravity centers
- ISBN:
- 9780367442842
- 0367442841
- OCLC:
- 1154122644
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