Autocratization in post-Cold War Political Regimes

• Main Authors: Cassani, Andrea (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Tomini, Luca (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
• Subjects: Democracy.; Political theory.; World politics.; Comparative politics.; Political Theory.; Political History.; Comparative Politics.

This book deals with post-Cold War processes of autocratization, that is, regime change towards autocracy. While these processes are growing in number and frequency, autocratization remains a relatively understudied phenomenon, especially its most recent manifestations. In this volume, the authors o...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction: From Democratization to Autocratization
• 2 What Autocratization is
• 3 Trends of post-Cold War Autocratization
• 4 Modes of post-Cold War Autocratization
• 5 Cases of post-Cold War Autocratization
• 6 Conclusion: Patterns of post-Cold War Autocratization.