... authoritarian regimes and cites shock therapy conditions and its continuity. Chile and the 1980 Pinochet Constitution democracy and accountability dictatorships Eastern Europe Latin America majoritarianism Pinochet Augusto Poland alternative political projects Argentina and the 1977 industrial...

...This chapter explores how international regimes and organizations fit into the Humean account of cooperation feasibility across borders. It highlights equilibria, design, and delegation as key themes. Since institutions run through people's social, civil, and civic lives, the rules need...

...This chapter examines the varieties of order and system while tackling the contingent societal stability of an institutionalized hierarchy with American European Roots. It highlights how any international system of regimes depends on international order, which is fragile if states hover between...

... that produced so much violence and repression in previous examples. Yet the Mexican Revolution never became as radical as these others because it did not formulate a coherent utopian ideal. After considering this seeming exception, the chapter turns to the examples of tyrannical certitude—revolutionary regimes...

... revolutionary regimes, though these characteristics are not only limited to such regimes. The chapter shows that what began as truly reformist, idealistic revolutionary movements ultimately degenerated badly, and what is most disturbing about this is that they once held out real promise of something cleaner...

... of nonvoters, the neglect of the interests of the minority, and the irrationality of voters. Then the chapter shows how the “internal” solutions are inadequate. Next, this chapter constructs a Confucian hybrid regime that is based on Mencius’s ideas discussed in Chapter 2, and shows how it can address...

...During the past several decades, the international human rights movement has had a crucial hand in struggles against totalitarian regimes and crimes against humanity. Today, it grapples with the war against terror and subsequent abuses of government power. This book offers a comprehensive...

...This chapter discusses how authoritarian regimes come to repress their opposition in different ways. It offers evidence for how differences in colonial coercive institutions in the Middle East conditioned coercive institutions in their independent counterparts in the post-colonial period, and thus...

...This chapter examines the nature of repression under authoritarian regimes. It first presents a typology of authoritarian repertoires of repression before turning to the authoritarian party systems in Egypt and Tunisia. The chapter then outlines the ruling parties in Tunisia and Egypt and what...

..., of ideas rather than material abilities. In the course of 1989, half of Europe had come to the conclusion that it need not continue to live under nondemocratic regimes in the interest of maintaining the stability of the whole. Afghanistan Eliot T S Four Powers Gorbachev Mikhail Hungary Jahn Roland...

... increasingly enmeshed within new legal and forensic practices, as well as multiple legal regimes over the course of the twentieth century. Bab al Hadid Cairo Station film Cairo Station Bab al Hadid film Chahine Youssef criminality criminology Egypt history of Freud Sigmund law Lombroso Cesare popular...

...,” not “identity position,” is at stake in these claims. The important story is one of interlinked normative orders. Multiple regulatory regimes shape possibilities for status continuity over time; these possibilities converge ultimately in shared understandings that membership within a community of faith...

... twentieth-century rivals, fascism, and communism. The book argues that waves of regime change are driven by the aftermath of cataclysmic disruptions to the international system. These hegemonic shocks, marked by the sudden rise and fall of great powers, have been essential and often-neglected drivers...

...This book examines regime change during the so-called Third Wave by focusing on transitions to and from democratic rule, taking into account factors such as the nature of authoritarian and democratic institutions, regime performance, and capacities for collective action on the part of civil society...

...This chapter examines why some democratic transitions were driven by mass mobilization, while others appeared to be predominantly elite processes, with a greater role for international influences as well. It first outlines core theoretical arguments about the way authoritarian regimes...

... and CGV datasets with respect to variables of core theoretical interest: the authoritarian status quo, the organizational foundations of mass mobilization, and features of the exit of authoritarian rulers. The chapter first explains how the nature of authoritarian regimes can affect modes of transition...

...This chapter discusses the attitudinal imprint of communism on the second main ideological pillar that differentiated communist regimes form their Western rivals: support for market-based economic principles. In line with the findings about democratic support in the previous chapter, the empirical...

... of communism affects not only individuals with long personal exposures to communism but also post-communist citizens with very limited personal exposures to communist regimes and welfare states. jokes social welfare support economics of state control living in post communist countries legacy nostalgia...

... for promoting economic growth, especially growth via innovation. The channel of liberty-to-innovation holds the most critical channel in which democracy holds a unique advantage over autocracy in promoting growth, especially during the stage of growth via innovation. Additionally, political regimes influence...

...This chapter focuses on the violent international events that most dramatically upend the autocratic status quo: defeat in foreign war and the withdrawal of an autocratic hegemon. These are cataclysmic events that clearly weaken autocratic regimes and provide openings for democratization. It looks...