Dealing with the Legacy of Authoritarianism
Title | Dealing with the Legacy of Authoritarianism PDF eBook |
Author | Antonio Costa Pinto |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2013-09-13 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1317986431 |
In recent years the agenda of how to ‘deal with the past’ has become a central dimension of the quality of contemporary democracies. Many years after the process of authoritarian breakdown, consolidated democracies revisit the past either symbolically or to punish the elites associated with the previous authoritarian regimes. New factors, like international environment, conditionality, party cleavages, memory cycles and commemorations or politics of apologies, do sometimes bring the past back into the political arena. This book addresses such themes by dealing with two dimensions of authoritarian legacies in Southern European democracies: repressive institutions and human rights abuses. The thrust of this book is that we should view transitional justice as part of a broader ‘politics of the past’: an ongoing process in which elites and society under democratic rule revise the meaning of the past in terms of what they hope to achieve in the present. This book was published as a special issue of South European Society and Politics.
Dealing with the Legacy of Authoritarianism
Title | Dealing with the Legacy of Authoritarianism PDF eBook |
Author | Antonio Costa Pinto |
Publisher | |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2013-05-22 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780415846936 |
In recent years the agenda of how to 'deal with the past' has become a central dimension of the quality of contemporary democracies. Many years after the process of authoritarian breakdown, consolidated democracies revisit the past either symbolically or to punish the elites associated with the previous authoritarian regimes. New factors, like international environment, conditionality, party cleavages, memory cycles and commemorations or politics of apologies, do sometimes bring the past back into the political arena. This book addresses such themes by dealing with two dimensions of authoritarian legacies in Southern European democracies: repressive institutions and human rights abuses. The thrust of this book is that we should view transitional justice as part of a broader 'politics of the past': an ongoing process in which elites and society under democratic rule revise the meaning of the past in terms of what they hope to achieve in the present. This book was published as a special issue of South European Society and Politics.
From Dictatorship to Democracy
Title | From Dictatorship to Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | John H. Herz |
Publisher | Greenwood |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN |
Party Systems in Latin America
Title | Party Systems in Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Scott Mainwaring |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 525 |
Release | 2018-02-08 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1107175526 |
This book generates a wealth of new empirical information about Latin American party systems and contributes richly to major theoretical debates about party systems and democracy.
Authoritarian Legacies and Democracy in Latin America and Southern Europe
Title | Authoritarian Legacies and Democracy in Latin America and Southern Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Katherine Hite |
Publisher | |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Among the challenges for democracies in Latin America and Southern Europe are weakened political parties, politicized militaries, compromised judiciaries, corrupt police forces and widespread citizen distrust. These essays offer an examination of the political structures and institutions bequeathed by authoritarian regimes.
Working through the Past
Title | Working through the Past PDF eBook |
Author | Teri L. Caraway |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 297 |
Release | 2015-11-16 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0801455472 |
Democratization in the developing and postcommunist world has yielded limited gains for labor. Explanations for this phenomenon have focused on the effect of economic crisis and globalization on the capacities of unions to become influential political actors and to secure policies that benefit their members. In contrast, the contributors to Working through the Past highlight the critical role that authoritarian legacies play in shaping labor politics in new democracies, providing the first cross-regional analysis of the impact of authoritarianism on labor, focusing on East and Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America. Legacies from the predemocratic era shape labor’s present in ways that both limit and enhance organized labor’s power in new democracies. Assessing the comparative impact on a variety of outcomes relevant to labor in widely divergent settings, this volume argues that political legacies provide new insights into why labor movements in some countries have confronted the challenges of neoliberal globalization better than others.
Polarized and Demobilized
Title | Polarized and Demobilized PDF eBook |
Author | Dana El Kurd |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2020-01-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0190095865 |
After the 1994 Oslo Accords, Palestinians were hopeful that an end to the Israeli occupation was within reach, and that a state would be theirs by 1999. With this promise, international powers became increasingly involved in Palestinian politics, and many shadows of statehood arose in the territories. Today, however, no state has emerged, and the occupation has become more entrenched. Concurrently, the Palestinian Authority has become increasingly authoritarian, and Palestinians ever more polarized and demobilized. Palestine is not unique in this: international involvement, and its disruptive effects, have been a constant across the contemporary Arab world. This book argues that internationally backed authoritarianism has an effect on society itself, not just on regime-level dynamics. It explains how the Oslo paradigm has demobilized Palestinians in a way that direct Israeli occupation, for many years, failed to do. Using a multi-method approach including interviews, historical analysis, and cutting-edge experimental data, Dana El Kurd reveals how international involvement has insulated Palestinian elites from the public, and strengthened their ability to engage in authoritarian practices. In turn, those practices have had profound effects on society, including crippling levels of polarization and a weakened capacity for collective action.