... and institutionalize charismatic attachments to regime founders is crucial in determining their own and the regime’s political survival. This article presents a new theoretical framework for examining the process of post-charismatic legitimation in two personalistic autocracies: Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan...

...Vugar Bayramov; Dan Breban; Elmir Mukhtarov This paper aims to provide a coherent analysis of the economic impact accession to the Eurasian Economic Union has had on the economies of current member states and what affect membership would have on the economy of Azerbaijan. By applying a Linear...

...Fakhri J. Hasanov; Jeyhun I. Mikayilov In this study, we examined the impacts of population age groups of 0–14, 15–64 and 65-above on residential electricity consumption in Azerbaijan within the STIRPAT framework. Unlike many prior studies of STIRPAT framework, we analyzed this impact, employing co...

...Anar Valiyev; Azer Babayev; Hajar Huseynova; Khalida Jafarova This study examines the trust in political institutions in Azerbaijan using the data from the survey Caucasus Barometer (CB) conducted by the Caucasus Research Resource Center (CRRC) in 2012–2013. Two hypotheses – cultural...

...Licínia Simão This article looks at the interdependences between the democratisation processes in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh and the management of the Karabakh conflict, focussing on the EU’s democracy promotion policies. The article argues that the EU’s normative foreign policy...

... the role that these parties play in the survival of the regimes. This article asks which of the purposes that are frequently ascribed to ruling authoritarian parties are fulfilled by United Russia, the Yeni Azerbaijan Party, and Nur Otan of Kazakhstan, the hegemonic parties of the three strongest...