The Domestic or International? Assessing the Factors in Competitive Authoritarian Regimes’ Trajectories and Outcomes: A Review of Levitsky and Way, Schedler and Brownlee

Authors : Nazlı ÖZEKİCİ

Pages : 125-129

Doi:10.33458/uidergisi.513535

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Publication Date : 2017-09-01

Article Type : Other Papers

Abstract :The collapse of the Soviet regime and the subsequent end of the Cold War signaled a shift in the international environment away from the previous one: a new era in which the West was the winner and—at least initially—that the liberal democracy seemed to be the only game in town. Consequently, many closed or hegemonic authoritarian governments felt the pressure to either leave the political arena or to reform their way of ruling and their institutions. In this effort, they introduced multiparty systems and elections in various degrees. 
Keywords : Authoritarianism, Hybrid Regimes, Democratization