Political Leadership Between Democracy and Authoritarianism : Comparative and Historical Perspectives
by Jerzy J. Wiatr
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3847425382 | 206 Pages | True PDF | 3.76 MB

Legacies of Repression in Egypt and Tunisia: Authoritarianism, Political Mobilization, and Founding Elections by Alanna C. Torres-Van Antwerp
English | ISBN: 1009100513 | 255 pages | EPUB | March 10, 2022 | 3.94 Mb
When an authoritarian regime collapses, what determines whether an opposition group will form a political party, be successful in mobilizing voters, and survive or dissolve as a group in subsequent years? Based on unique field research, Alanna C. Torres-Van Antwerp examines the origins of the dramatic political arc of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood - from winning a plurality of parliamentary seats and the presidency in the first free elections in eighty years to being ousted from office eighteen months later through a popular coup - and finds common causal factors that structured the fates of other formerly repressed opposition groups in five comparative cases. She demonstrates how the processes of party formation, electoral mobilization, and party dissolution after the ousting of an authoritarian regime were shaped by the way that regime structured the resources, incentives, and constraints available to opposition groups in the previous era.

Jerzy J. Wiatr, "New Authoritarianism: Challenges to Democracy in the 21st century"
English | ISBN: 3847422219 | 2019 | 184 pages | EPUB, PDF | 961 KB + 6 MB

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Cold War Reckonings - Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization
pdf | 5.22 MB | English | Isbn:‎ 0823294838 | Author: Jini Kim Watson | Year: 2021

Cold War Reckonings: Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization by Jini Kim Watson
English | Aug 3, 2021 | ISBN: 082329482X, 0823294838 | 272 pages | PDF | 5 MB
How did the Cold War shape culture and political power in decolonizing countries and give rise to authoritarian regimes in the so-called free world? Cold War Reckonings tells a new story about the Cold War and the global shift from colonialism to independent nation-states. Assembling a body of transpacific cultural works that speak to this historical conjuncture, Jini Kim Watson reveals autocracy to be not a deficient form of liberal democracy, but rather the result of Cold War entanglements with decolonization.

D. Berg-Schlosser, J. Mitchell, "Authoritarianism and Democracy in Europe, 1919-39: Comparative Analyses"
English | 2002 | pages: 360 | ISBN: 0333966066 | PDF | 2,4 mb
Authoritarianism and Democracy in Europe, 1919-39 offers a comprehensive analysis of the survival or breakdown of democracy in interwar Europe. The contributors explore factors such as the historical, social-structural and political-cultural backgrounds of the policies that European countries attempted to implement to counter the world economic crisis of 1929. The analysis serves as an important backdrop for the assessment of current democratic developments in former communist Europe and highlights some of the problems and risks involved in the transition process.