The study of authoritarian diffusion and cooperation: comparative lessons on interests versus ideology, nowadays and in history

Bank, André

doi:10.4324/9780429452123-7

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“…Beyond linkage and leverage, unintentional autocratic diffusion processes, as well as an attractiveness of authoritarian values, are also probable candidates for explaining democratic erosion. Yet, empirical research has been rather cautious here (Bank 2017). If taking a historical perspective, exogeneity can also stem from a different angle.…”

Section: Erosion Versus Decay: the Democratic Backsliding Debatementioning

confidence: 99%

Explanations of Institutional Change: Reflecting on a “Missing Diagonal”

Gerschewski

2020

Am Polit Sci Rev

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Previous research on institutional change has concentrated on two types of explanations. On one hand, the dualism of path dependency and critical junctures has advanced our understanding of how institutional change occurs due to sudden exogenous shocks. On the other hand, more recent critiques have established a better understanding of endogenous, gradual change. This article is motivated by observations that current research tends to overlook what I call the “missing diagonal.” I argue that we need to disentangle the sources of a cause (exogenous vs. endogenous) from its time horizon (sudden vs. gradual). By cross-tabulating these two dimensions, the proposed typology of institutional change explanations is able to capture complex multilayered as well as sequential arguments of institutional change. The typology urges scholars to be more precise with their social science language of erosion and decay, while serving as a generator for an innovative research agenda on endogenous ruptures.

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Section: Erosion Versus Decay: the Democratic Backsliding Debatementioning

confidence: 99%

Explanations of Institutional Change: Reflecting on a “Missing Diagonal”

Gerschewski

2020

Am Polit Sci Rev

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“…Thus [learning] not via imitation, but via immunization -against the revolutionary 'virus' itself." (Bank, 2017(Bank, : 1353…”

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2019

IJPT

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Since the 2008 financial crisis, the attempts to use Karl Polanyi's framework to make sense of current developments have multiplied, producing a noticeable and lively debate. This debate centres on the notion of double movement put forward by the Hungarian thinker in his masterpiece -The Great Transformation. The paper is a contribution to this debate. The first part addresses a series of questions that make the interpretations of the double movement advanced so far not very compelling. To this end, a close reading of Polanyi's text, with the aim of dismantling and rearticulating its analytical structure, is carried out. The upshot is a dynamic and multistage picture of the double process as a recurrent and vortex-like attempt to progressively commodify natural and social resources against growing opposition. The second part employs this revised reading of the double movement to explain the collapse of the postwar consensus politics, the success of the neoliberal counterrevolution and the development of the knowledge economy. The claim put forward here is that, in addition to sustained efforts to deepen previous forms of commodification (land, labour and money), we are witnessing a fullblown attempt to turn knowledge into a new fictitious commodity. Building on the idea of digital Taylorism, the paper tries to show that information and computer technologies are being used to standardise and routinise a growing number of intellectual, professional and managerial activities which were able to escape previous attempts in this direction. Once again, at the forefront of this process there are powerful state actors, who are using New Public Management policies strategically to: support the enclosure of intangible cultural resources through the creation of intellectual property rights regimes, and undermine the counter-reaction of negatively affected societal actors by rising the collective action problems they face.

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“…With exception of the latter case, nowadays interest-driven foreign assistance prevails over ideologically motivated regime promotion (e.g. Bank, 2017; Weyland, 2017).…”

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Beyond Autocracy Promotion: A Review

Yakouchyk

2018

Political Studies Review

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In this article, I provide a survey of the recent and rapidly growing theoretical and empirical literature on autocracy promotion. In a relatively concise way, the reader is able to grasp all key concepts and related aspects on the topic. This article is a guide for all those aiming to begin their journey in the scholarly land of autocracy promotion, trying to stimulate these travelers in exploring off-beaten research avenues.

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The study of authoritarian diffusion and cooperation: comparative lessons on interests versus ideology, nowadays and in history

Cited by 7 publications

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Explanations of Institutional Change: Reflecting on a “Missing Diagonal”

Explanations of Institutional Change: Reflecting on a “Missing Diagonal”

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Beyond Autocracy Promotion: A Review

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