The social roots of authoritarianism / Natalia Forrat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Forrat, Natalia, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authoritarianism--Social aspects.

Authoritarianism.

Authoritarianism--Social aspects--Russia (Federation)--Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

In this text, Natalia Forrat describes two models of authoritarianism: the first in which people see the state as their team leader and the other where they trust informal (non-state) leaders and see the state as a source of perks or punishment. Forrat compares the structures of political machines in four Russian regions, finding that the two maintaining unity-based authoritarianism demonstrated a stable performance across multiple elections, while the other two delivered less stable results. Carefully crafted and sophisticated, Forrat's theory of authoritarian power sheds new light on state-society relations in Russia and helps explain the divergent patterns of regime maintenance strategies in authoritarian countries throughout the world.

Contents:

Cover

The Social Roots of Authoritarianism

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Unity and Division as the Social Roots of Authoritarianism

Statist and Antistatist Societies

Autocracy-​Democracy-​Autocracy

Russia as a Research Site

Two Empirical Approaches and the Structure of the Book

What the Book Does and Does Not

Democracy Support

1. Authoritarian Power in Statist and Antistatist Societies

Statist versus Antistatist Societies

Group Authority and the Third Face of Power

Group Authority and the State

Grassroots Politics in Statist and Antistatist Societies

Infrastructural State Power and Civil Society

Political Functions of Public Organizations

The State as the Driver of Informality

Chapter Summary

2. A Tale of Four Regions

The Puzzle of the 2012 Presidential Election

Regional Political Machines

Nested Analysis and Case Selection

Regional Socioeconomic Profiles

The Regional Histories of State Formation

Tatarstan

The Kemerovo Region

The Republic of Altai

The Rostov Region

3. Team State versus Outsider State: Public Organizations in Statist and Antistatist Societies

The Team State in the Kemerovo Region and Tatarstan

The State as Protector

"Is It Bad to Help the Poor?"

The Developmental State

Pride and Loyalty

The Outsider State in the Rostov Region and Altai

Social Norms and Safety Net in Nonstate Communities

The Legitimate Authority of Nonstate Community Leaders

Centralized Public Organizations in the Kemerovo Region and Tatarstan

Community Centers and Residential Councils in Kemerovo

Elena's Residential Council

The Infrastructure of Residential Councils and Community Centers in Kemerovo City

Activities of Community Centers and Residential Councils.

Youth Organizations in Tatarstan

The Origins of Tatarstan's Youth Organizations

The Infrastructure and Activities of Youth Organizations

State Leadership beyond the Formal State

Decentralized Public Organizations in the Rostov Region and Altai

Organizational Autonomy from the State

State Strategy of Minimal Interference

The State, Civil Society, and "Collective Institutions"

4. The Political and the Civic: Political Machines in Antistatist and Statist Societies

Buying Loyalty: Political Machines in Antistatist Societies

Pluralist Political Environment

Utility Maximization as the Driver of Clientelist Political Machines

The Challenge of Stable Electoral Performance

Reproduction of the Boundary between the Civic and the Political

Building Unity: Political Machines in Statist Societies

The Blurred Boundary between the Civic and the Political

The Distorted Idea of Representation

Mobilization and Co-​optation

Management of Existing and Potential Discontent

Control of Public Space and Discourse

Stability of Electoral Performance

How the State Hijacked a Social Movement: The Story of the Kemerovo Veterans' Councils

A Short History of Veterans' Councils in the Soviet Union and Post-​Soviet Russia

Aman Tuleyev's Takeover of the Veterans' Councils in the Kemerovo Region

The Expansion of the Veterans' Councils in the Kemerovo Region after 2003

How Social Statism Makes Social Movements Vulnerable

The Achilles' Heel of State-​Led Unity

5. The Riddle of Russian Authoritarianism

Russian Statism: The Case of Vladimir Putin's Regime

Personalism

Nationalism

Performance Legitimacy and the Social Contract

The Search for a Just State and the Russian Political Culture.

The Foundations of State Authority in Russia

Resistance and Compliance in Tsarist Russia

The Search for a Just State in the Soviet Union

Compliant Activism

Active Resistance

Passive Resistance

The Search for a Just State in Post-​Soviet Russia

Evidence of Social Statism in Public Opinion Polls

Yeltsin versus Putin

Compliant Activism and the Social Roots of Putin's Support

Repression, Resistance, and Compliance Shortly before and after the 2022 Invasion of Ukraine

Conclusion

Statist and Antistatist Societies around the World

Explaining Politics, Society, and Democratization through the Statist/​Antistatist Lens

Appendix 1. Quantitative Analysis

Appendix 2. Fieldwork Data Collection and Analysis

Appendix 3. Data on Social Policy in the Kemerovo Region

Appendix 4. Newspaper Publications Related to Residential Committees and Community Centers in Kemerovo and to Their Role in Politics

Appendix 5. Newspaper Publications Related to Veterans' (Pensioners') Organizations and Their Role in Politics

Appendix 6. List of Interviews

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on September 9, 2024).

ISBN:

9780197790380

0197790380

9780197790366

0197790364

9780197790373

0197790372

OCLC:

1455280078