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Regulate against the machine: how the EU mitigates AI harm to democracy
Jelena Cupać & Mitja Sienknecht
Published online: 07 Jun 2024
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The curious case of democratic backsliding in Bangladesh: an analysis of people’s financial satisfaction
Md Shahriar Islam & Md. Mafizur Rahman
Published online: 06 Jun 2024
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Waiting for Dignity: Legitimacy and Authority in Afghanistan
by Florian Weigand, New York, Columbia University Press, 2022, 384 pp., $30.00 (paperback), ISBN 9780231200493
Ayse Sargin
Published online: 06 Jun 2024
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Compromise in multilateral negotiations and the global regulation of artificial intelligence
Michal Natorski
Published online: 05 Jun 2024
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The coalitions presidents make: presidential power and its limits in democratic Indonesia
by Marcus Mietzner, New York, Cornell University Press, 2023, 281 pp., index, $36.95 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-50177-265-8
Danang Puji Atmojo, Erwin Syahputra Rambe & Anisa Sulistiani
Published online: 26 May 2024
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Permissive prejudice in localized authoritarian consolidation: evidence from Turkey's municipalities
Lisel Hintz & Harun Ercan
Published online: 16 May 2024
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Exploring popular conceptions of democracy through media discourse: analysing dimensions of democracy from online media data in 93 countries using a distributional semantic model
Stefan Dahlberg & Ulf Mörkenstam
Published online: 16 May 2024
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Media capture, captured: a new computational methodology to measure deteriorating media freedom
Hennes-Michel Barnehl & Gijs Schumacher
Published online: 14 May 2024
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Activism in the era of democratic backsliding: explaining the efficacy of the clean-air campaigns in Poland
Mate Subašić, Sarah Birch, Adam Fagan & Tomas Maltby
Published online: 06 May 2024
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Securing the peace or renegotiating the political settlement? Understanding popular support for post-conflict constitutions
Jordan Kyle & Danielle Resnick
Published online: 06 May 2024
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The authoritarian international. Tracing how authoritarian regimes learn in the post-soviet space
by Stephen G. F. Hall, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 272 pp., index, 110 $ Ebook, DOI: 10.1017/9781009089630. ISBN 9781009089630
Zerrin Torun
Published online: 28 Apr 2024
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Political corruption in the Arab Mediterranean countries: an innovative typology
Assem Dandashly & Christos Kourtelis
Published online: 28 Apr 2024
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Elite strategy in resilient authoritarianism: Equatorial Guinea, 1979–2023
Austin S. Matthews & Ana Lúcia Sá
Published online: 28 Apr 2024
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State of the world 2023: democracy winning and losing at the ballot
Fabio Angiolillo, Martin Lundstedt, Marina Nord & Staffan I. Lindberg
Published online: 28 Apr 2024
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What does the population in Niger think about a military government?
Daniel Tuki
Published online: 24 Apr 2024
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Declining Democracy in East-Central Europe: The Divide in the EU and Emerging Hard Populism; Awakening Europe in the Triple Global Crisis: The Birth Pangs of the Emerging Europe
Declining Democracy in East-Central Europe: The Divide in the EU and Emerging Hard Populism, by Attila Ágh, Cheltenham, Edwar Elgar, 2019, 320 pp., 98.10 GBP, ISBN 9781788974721; Awakening Europe in the Triple Global Crisis: The Birth Pangs of the Emerging Europe, Attila Ágh, Cheltenham, Edwar Elgar, 2021, 240 pp., 84.60 GBP, ISBN 9781800887794
Matthijs Bogaards
Published online: 24 Apr 2024
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Democratic innovations beyond the deliberative paradigm: a re-conceptualization based on Luhmann’s systems theory
Christian Opitz
Published online: 22 Apr 2024
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Consequences of democratic backsliding in popular culture: evidence from blacklist in South Korea
Byunghwan Son
Published online: 18 Apr 2024
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Birds of a feather flock together: influence of ideology in the implementation of participation
Isabel Becerril Viera, Ernesto Ganuza & Carlos Rico Motos
Published online: 18 Apr 2024
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Authoritarian multiparty governments
Laure Bokobza & Jacob Nyrup
Published online: 17 Apr 2024
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Mnemonic politics among Philippine voters: a social media measurement approach
Sanghoon Kim-Leffingwell & Emily Sallenback
Published online: 11 Apr 2024
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Self-determination vs. state sovereignty. What are the determinants of agreed-upon independence referendums in liberal democracies?
Marc Sanjaume-Calvet, Jean-Baptiste Harguindéguy & Almudena Sánchez Sánchez
Published online: 05 Apr 2024
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Hidden contestation: valence issues, methodological blindness and the politics of development in Nigeria
Portia Roelofs
Published online: 04 Apr 2024
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Repression in the digital age: surveillance, censorship, and the dynamics of state violence
by Anita Gohdes, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2023, 200 pp., £18.99 (paperback), ISBN 9780197772614
Philipp M. Lutscher
Published online: 02 Apr 2024
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Charter–manifesto congruence as a signal for issue salience: democratic innovations within political parties in Hungary
Daniel Kovarek & Dániel Oross
Published online: 01 Apr 2024
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Does the control of corruption cause progress in democracy and if so, through which channels? A threshold non-linear analysis
Khalid Sekkat, Fredj Fhima & Ridha Nouira
Published online: 25 Mar 2024
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When do agents deliver the vote? A vote-popularity function in electoral manipulation
Youngho Cho & Brandon Beomseob Park
Published online: 20 Mar 2024
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Democracies and international law
by Tom Ginsburg, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, 329 pp., € 35.00 (paperback), ISBN 9781108914871
Lucia Dalla Pellegrina & Mario Gilli
Published online: 11 Mar 2024
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Revolution and dictatorship. The violent origins of durable authoritarianism
by Steven Levitsky and Ducan Way, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2022, 656 pp., $39.95 (ebook), ISBN 9780691169521
Gözde Yilmaz
Published online: 29 Feb 2024
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Radical movement-parties, political change and the epistemology of elections: evidence from Lebanon
Ibrahim Halawi, Bassel F. Salloukh & Janine A. Clark
Published online: 23 Feb 2024
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The new Kremlinology: understanding regime personalization in Russia
by Alexander Baturo and Jos Elkink, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, 240 +vi pp., £65 (paperback), ISBN: 9780192896193
Muhammad Asad Latif
Published online: 20 Feb 2024
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Technocratic beliefs and delegative democratic attitudes in states of emergency: evidence from a cross-national analysis
Hanna Kim
Published online: 20 Feb 2024
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Not just rubber-stamping: understanding the amending role of the Chinese legislature with bill text reuse
Jiying Jiang
Published online: 13 Feb 2024
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The decoupling practice of “Democraticwashing”: the case of Israel
Nitzan Perelman
Published online: 13 Feb 2024
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Strict COVID-19 lockdown and popular regime support in China
Qingjie Zeng
Published online: 13 Feb 2024
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When elites concede: state capacity and the management of protest in Mexico
Heather Sullivan
Published online: 06 Feb 2024
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Ambition without democracy: when the cautious seek office
Guzel Garifullina
Published online: 05 Feb 2024
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Political plasticity: the future of democracy and dictatorship
edited by Fathali M. Moghaddam, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 227 pp., index, $29.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-009-27711-2 (hardback)
Toni Hidayat, Muhammad Royhan, Said Khaidir, Iqbal Abdul Rizal & Manggala Wiriya Tantra
Published online: 30 Jan 2024
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Asian Military Evolutions. Civil–Military Relations in Asia
by Alan Chong and Nicole Jenne, Bristol University Press, Bristiol, 2024, 366 pages, £90 (hardcover), ISBN 9781529229325
Hwajun Lee
Published online: 30 Jan 2024
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Violence, what is it good for? Waves of riotous-violent protest and democracy
Deren Onursal, Adam Hobbs & Catherine Wells
Published online: 30 Jan 2024
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Latin American social movements and progressive governments: creative tensions between resistance and convergence
edited by Steve Ellner, Ronaldo Munck and Kyla Sankey, Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield, 2022, 336 pp., £72.00, ISBN: 978 1 53816 394 8
Muhammad Asad Latif
Published online: 28 Jan 2024
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Geopolitics and democracy: the Western liberal order from foundation to fracture
by Peter Trubowitz and Brian Burgoon, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2023, 245 pp., $27.95 (paperback), ISBN: 9780197535417
Monika
Published online: 23 Jan 2024
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African traditional institutions and support for democracy
Vladimir Chlouba
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Hailing the State: Indian Democracy Between Elections
by Lisa Mitchell, Durham and New York, Duke University Press, 2023, xviii + 300 pp., $27.95 (paperback), index ISBN 978-1-47-801876-6
Samarjit Ghosh
Published online: 15 Jan 2024
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Proportional representation and party fragmentation in electoral autocracies
Valeria Umanets
Published online: 15 Jan 2024
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Constitutional law and politics of secession
edited by Antoni Abat i Ninet, New York, Routledge, 2023, 384 pp., £150.00 (Hardback), ISBN 9781032318073
Natanel Lainsamputty & Christenia Gladysthea Arvita Andries
Published online: 15 Jan 2024
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Legitimation, co-optation, and survival: why is Turkey silent on China’s persecution of Uyghurs?
Nilgün Eliküçük Yıldırım
Published online: 28 Dec 2023
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Benign bureaucracies? Religious affairs ministries as institutions of political control
Ani Sarkissian & Ann Marie Wainscott
Published online: 28 Dec 2023
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Democratization, state capacity and developmental correlates of international artificial intelligence trade
H. Akın Ünver & Arhan S. Ertan
Published online: 17 Dec 2023
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Job insecurity, economic resources, and democratic backsliding: evidence from South Korea
Jun Hui Eom & Hyeok Yong Kwon
Published online: 10 Dec 2023
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