The Stabilization of Authoritarian Rule in Russia?

Public Support for Democracy in Transitional Regimes

“…Most clearly, it seems that authoritarian regimes are safeguarded when citizens are tolerant of single-party dominance, if it is perceived as providing good governance. In addition, many regimes seem to survive by generating popular disengagement from politics (see Gill, 2015;Karp & Milazzo, 2015;McAllister & White, 2015). There is a great deal of room to build on these results and further our understanding of how political culture may strengthen political systems that embrace democratic and authoritarian practices.…”

“…Just as is the case with the political systems themselves, it is often more accurate to describe attitudes as favouring a mix of democratic and authoritarian governance practices, rather than half for democracy and half for authoritarianism. With this in mind, several contributions to this issue focus specifically on attitudes towards democracy where a significant proportion of the population have mixed democratic and authoritarian orientations (see Gill, 2015;Pietsch, 2015;Shin, 2015).…”