Tools of autocracy

Journal of Democracy

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 42-46

  Silitski, Vitali ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 67651240370     PISSN: 10455736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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References (4)

1. Juan J. Linz, "An Authoritarian Regime: The Case of Spain," in Erik Allardt and Stein Rokkan, eds., Mass Politics: Studies in Political Sociology (New York: Free Press, 1970), 255.
2. Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way define competitive authoritarian regimes as ones which, while falling short of democracy, "also fall short of full-scale authoritarianism. Although incumbents in competitive authoritarian regimes may routinely manipulate formal democratic rules, they are unable to eliminate them or reduce them to a mere façade⋯ . As a result, even though democratic institutions may be badly flawed, both authoritarian incumbents and their opponents must take them seriously." Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way, "The Rise of Competitive Authoritarianism," Journal of Democracy 13 (April 2002): 53-54.
3. Linz, "An Authoritarian Regime," 255.
4. See Vitali Silitski, "Contagion Deterred: Preemptive Authoritarianism in the Former Soviet Union (The Case of Belarus)," CDDRL Working Paper No. 66, June 2006. Available at http://iis-db.stanford.edu/ pubs/21152/Silitski-No-66.pdf.