What are the mechanisms of legitimation in non-democratic and linguistically divided states? How do regimes in these states use and manipulate the ideology and nation-building for the purposes of regime legitimation? The article focuses on the concept of compartmentalized ideology in non-democratic regimes with substantial divisions in the so-called titular and minority group where socio-linguistic divide allows regimes to construct diverse audiences and even political communities with their own distinct narratives and discourses about the nation, state and the regime. The compartmentalized ideology is only sustainable under the conditions of the regime's power to control and facilitate these discourses through the system of authoritative presidential addresses to the nation and/or other forms of regime's communication with the polity. The shifting of these discourses and themes contribute to the regime stability but also may constitute its re-legitimation.
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Diana T. Kudaibergenova
Centre of Development Studies, Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Communist and Post-Communist Studies (2019) 52 (3): 247–257.
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Diana T. Kudaibergenova; Compartmentalized ideology and nation-building in non-democratic states. Communist and Post-Communist Studies 1 September 2019; 52 (3): 247–257. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.postcomstud.2019.07.002
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