Authoritarian gravity centers : a cross-regional study of authoritarian promotion and diffusion
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Bibliographic Information
Authoritarian gravity centers : a cross-regional study of authoritarian promotion and diffusion
(Conceptualising change in comparative politics : polities, peoples, and markets / edited by Francisco Panizza and Anthony Peter Spanakos, 11)
Routledge, 2021
- : hbk
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Autocracies not only resist the global spread of democracy but are sources of autocratic influence and pressure. This book presents a conceptual model to understand, assess, and explain the promotion and diffusion of authoritarian elements.
Employing a cross-regional approach, leading experts empirically test the concept of authoritarian gravity centers (AGCs), defined as "regimes that constitute a force of attraction and contagion for countries in geopolitical proximity." With an analysis extending across Latin America, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and Asia, these AGCs are shown to be effective as active promoters (push) or as neutral sources of attraction (pull). The authors contend that the influence of exogenous factors, along with international and regional contexts for the transformation of regime types, is vital to understanding and analyzing the transmission of autocratic institutional settings, ideas, norms, procedures, and practices, thus explaining the regional clustering of autocracies. It is the regional context in which external actors can influence authoritarian processes most effectively.
Authoritarian Gravity Centers is a vibrant and comprehensive contribution to the growing field of autocratization, which will be of great interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of comparative area studies, illiberalism, international politics, and studies of democracy.
Table of Contents
Part I: Concept 1. Autocratization and its Pull and Push Factors - A Challenge for Comparative Research 2. Conceptualizing Authoritarian Gravity Centers: Sources and Addressees, Mechanisms and Motives of Authoritarian Pressure and Attraction Part II: Empirical Studies on Authoritarian Gravity Centers 3. Kingdom of Gravity: Autocratic Promotion and Diffusion in Saudi Arabia 4. Democratic Erosion and Autocratization in Latin America: The Role of Venezuela as an Authoritarian Gravity Centre 5. Kazakhstan: A Possible Future Authoritarian Gravity Centre? Part III: The International Dimension of Authoritarianism Revisited 6. Russia's Effects on a Consolidated Democracy: The Erosion of Democracy in Hungary and the Putin Model 7. Iran and its Neighbors: Military Assistance as Support for Authoritarianism 8. Networking with Chinese Characteristics: China's Party-to-Party Relations in Asia 9. Spreading Cyber-Autocracy? The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the Diffusion of Norms of "Internet Sovereignty" Part IV: Authoritarianism Gravity Centres in Cross-Regional Comparison 10. Authoritarian Gravity Centres in Cross-Regional Comparison: Future Studies and the International Dimension of Authoritarianism
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