Concessions, which can serve as a useful tool for managing protest, are more commonly used where state capacity is high. High-capacity 🇲🇽 states were more likely to offer cheap concessions, but not more likely to engage in costly reform. Heather Sullivan doi.org/10.1080/135103…

Job insecurity is associated with support for strong undemocratic leaders not subject to legislative checks and balances. Enhancing job security and expanding public welfare provisions could bolster citizens’ democratic attitudes and behaviours. Hyeok Yong Kwon doi.org/10.1080/135103…

Dr. Yasser Kureshi's research into judicial contestation & military prerogatives is a very interesting read on the politico-legal culture of power & jurisprudence in 🇵🇰. Engrossed by the great insights especially relevant in the contemporary context. 1/ TCD Law School Democratization

Under what conditions do riotous-violent protests increase the likelihood of protest success? Deren Onursal, A. Hobbs & Catherine Wells show that waves of protester violence leads to a higher likelihood of accommodation, especially in democracies. doi.org/10.1080/135103…

Analysing data from the Asian Barometer Survey + World Values Survey, this study indicates a robust connection between technocratic beliefs and delegative democratic attitudes. Moreover, this link strengthens as a country’s level of emergency escalates. doi.org/10.1080/135103…

Why do Hungarian🇭🇺 citizens tolerate democratic backsliding? N. Wunsch & theresa gessler @gessler.bsky.social show mosaic pattern of support for authoritarian leadership, w economic + cultural trade-offs. Supply-side dynamics are key to understanding the entrenchment of backsliding. doi.org/10.1080/135103…

Why does #authoritarian responsiveness fail to alleviate social unrest? This article develops a feedback theory on the paradox of responsiveness through a case study of the Dong Tam land clash, the deadliest in Vietnam’s 🇻🇳 contemporary history. doi.org/10.1080/135103…

By Ihsan Yilmaz: Pro-government Turkish, non-Turkish Muslim diaspora groups are not only convinced by the #securitisation narrative that legitimates use of extraordinary state action, but take it upon themselves to carry on anti-dissident repressive actions doi.org/10.1080/135103…

Does the overlapping between ethnic and economic division harm democracy? Guido Panzano presents novel evidence matching survey data with an expert survey to illustrate how inequalities btw ethnic groups can be among the causes of #autocratization .
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Autocratic concessions to smaller, lower-capacity protests are often undermined by reneging. Reneging is most common when concessions create more constraints on state agents' behavior, finds Sasha de Vogel, using an original protest dataset from Russia 🇷🇺doi.org/10.1080/135103…

This article by Pelin A. Musil introduces the concept of an 'intermediary party' that facilitates unity among key opposition parties to select a joint candidate for elections. Mayoral elections held in Hungary 🇭🇺 and Turkey 🇹🇷 illustrate this argument. doi.org/10.1080/135103…

Dictators repress their citizens across borders. This study by Marcus Michaelsen & Kris Ruijgrok reveals how the political environment of the host state and the relationship between the host and origin state affects the likelihood that exiles are targeted.
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.Hendrik Schopmans & İrem Tuncer Ebetürk study campaigns against facial recognition technology in the U.S. 🇺🇸 and the European Union 🇪🇺, and ask why and how citizens resist AI-powered autocratization in consolidated democracies. doi.org/10.1080/135103…

I. Krakoff & Andrew Dawson re-examine the critical citizens thesis. They show that the effect of democracy on political trust is the same for partisan + “non-partisan” institutions, suggesting that low trust in democracies is a problem.
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In this article, Mwita Chacha explores how individual assessment of electoral practice and a country's and its neighbours' history of unconstitutional changes of government influence approval of external democracy promotion in African states.
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💥Publication Alert💥 I’m thrilled to share this article written by Ramona Coman and I just published in Democratization.
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