..., such as hybrid ( Hale 2010 ; Treisman 2011 ) and authoritarian ( Hanson 2011 ; Gel′man 2015 ). More recently, and particularly since February 24, 2022, it has been presented as imperialist ( Zaporozhchenko 2023 ), totalitarian ( Kolesnikov 2022 ; Domańska 2023 ), and fascist ( Motyl 2016 ; Snyder 2022...

...Xi Chen; Jing Xu As a high-capacity authoritarian regime, China has made immense efforts to exterminate the Falun Gong and other “evil cults.” However, cult activities persist throughout the country. This article seeks to explain why the extensive government repression in China failed to achieve...

...Marina Khmelnitskaya; Jo Zhou This article addresses the puzzle of the politics of social policy formation by two post-communist authoritarian regimes in China and Russia. It argues that two interrelated dimensions—which we term the pillars of power and policy—shape social policymaking and change...

... are characterized by better educational outcomes than the control group. email: [email protected] © 2023 by The Regents of the University of California 2023 Historical legacies Communist rule Natural experiment Authoritarianism Russian politics Communist rule casts a long...

...Kathryn Hendley The study represents a first effort to explore societal sources of support for judicial independence under authoritarianism. Contemporary Russia, which is characterized by legal dualism, under which judges pay close attention to the governing law when resolving mundane cases...

... protests in Belarus, this article analyzes the role of emotional community in nondemocratic, authoritarian environments where vocal criticism is becoming increasingly risky, but the level of societal discontent remains high. Relying on mass media publications, comments on social media platforms...

...Michaela Grančayová; Aliaksei Kazharski This article uses the gender perspective to compare the 2020 Belarus protests and the Arab Spring and its aftermath in Egypt (2011–13). It argues that in both cases authoritarian militarized hegemonic masculinities, articulated through authoritarian body...

... than affirms it. email: [email protected] ; [email protected] © 2022 by The Regents of the University of California 2022 civil resistance obedience Crimean Tatars Crimea authoritarianism In 2014, Russia’s invasion and annexation of the Crimean region of Ukraine...

...Paul Shields Early propaganda studies in authoritarian countries argue that state media works to legitimize the regime through indoctrination and persuasion. However, recent scholarship shows that citizens in authoritarian countries—in states like China, Syria, Russia, and Kazakhstan—can...

...Cheng Chen Under Putin and Xi, the post-communist authoritarian regimes in Russia and China had both initiated anti-corruption programs that exhibited some parallels but were also profoundly different. Through a contextualized comparison, and drawing on Russian and Chinese sources, this article...

...Igor Logvinenko This article evaluates the role of the authoritarian welfare state (AWS) in upholding regime stability in Vladimir Putin's Russia. The AWS has contributed to sociopolitical stability over the past 20 years by (1) maintaining frequent interactions between the state and the population...

... and post-Soviet Russia, a post-imperial syndrome that includes nationalist irredentism and an ambition to return to the status quo ante of a “great power” as a main reason why democratization faces specific and enormous challenges for former “great powers.” A slide back to authoritarianism in post-imperial...

...Stanislav N. Shkel The article analyzes authoritarian regimes within the post-Soviet territory in terms of informal practices (clannishness, clientelism and patronage) and their characteristics used by political leaders to form a power coalition. It has been argued that any of these informal...

.... This article contributes to the literature on authoritarian persistence and democratic diffusion by investigating the internal methods autocratic leaders adopt to ensure that democratic diffusion does not threaten their rule. E-mail address: [email protected] . © 2017 The Regents...

...Alexander J. Motyl There is a broad consensus among students of contemporary Russia that the political system constructed by Vladimir Putin is authoritarian and that he plays a dominant role in it. By building and expanding on these two features and by engaging in a deconstruction...

... international politics and party politics, this article explores this convergence and considers Russian authoritarian norm diffusion as a possible explanation. This article argues that although Russia continues to build significant party-based linkage in Central Asia, similarities between party systems...

... reserved. 2014 The Regents of the University of California Totalitarianism Yugoslavia Communism Authoritarianism Polyarchy stabli Com was disso ett (2 ier (1 e, kno abou dominant one during this state, in contrast to the first Yugoslavia, when it was the Croatian question . These questions...

... complaint-making, as a variety of political participation, may contribute either to authoritarian resilience or to political liberalization. The political significance of complaints made to the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Russian Federation is examined. Since it is the broader political context...

... of these are natural consequences of introducing democracy in a country with the Russian electorate’s distinctive recent experience of a loss of a third of the state’s territory and half its population. In such a democracy only a centrist, not a liberal, strategy can block a return to authoritarianism...

... such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Simultaneously, Russia sought to destabilize Georgia and Ukraine through economic and, in Georgia, military pressure. This authoritarian backlash following the colored revolutions buttressed the surviving autocracies, which prospects for democratization have become even...