How Autocrats Rise

Sequences of Democratic Backsliding

Md Sohel Rana author Ali Riaz author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Springer Verlag, Singapore

Published:14th Jan '24

Should be back in stock very soon

How Autocrats Rise cover

For the past decade and a half, the world has witnessed a precipitous decline of democratic countries and the consequent rise of autocrats. How Autocrats Rise: Sequences of Democratic Backsliding challenges the conventional wisdom and offers an institutional-ideological approach to understand the phenomenon, examines the steps of emergent autocrats, and analyzes the methods of legitimizing their rules. Employing the new framework, the book provides incisive analyses of four countries located in four different regions with dissimilar national features – Bangladesh, Bolivia, Hungary, and Turkey, and demonstrates that political developments in these countries have followed a similar, specific pattern resulting in various shades of autocracy. Theoretically enriched and empirically grounded, this exceptionally timely book makes significant contribution to the democratic backsliding literature while offering insights on how to forestall an autocratic era.


ISBN: 9789819975792

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189 pages

1st ed. 2024