Democracy Promotion and Authoritarian Diffusion: The Foreign Origins of Post-Soviet Election Laws

Bader, Max

doi:10.1080/09668136.2014.939521

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“…The empirical cases should help evaluate if some countries focus on one of the four models, or if they elaborate a mix among the four processes (Bader, 2014;Bader at al. 2010;Bank, 2017;Brownlee, 2017;Burnell, 2010aBurnell, , 2010bErdmann et al 2013;Risse & Babayan, 2015;Van der Bosch, 2020;Way, 2016;Yakouchyuk, 2018).…”

Section: Autocracy Promotion: a Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

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Theoretical framework and comparative analysis of Cuba, Venezuela, Russia, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, China

Fossatti

2022

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The models of autocracy promotion are four: a) Military intervention, through a war. b) Economic blackmail: by applying negative sanctions to pro-West democratizing regimes: trade or investments’ sanctions, and cuts to economic or military aid. c) Rewards: by positive sanctions to authoritarian or hybrid regimes, through diplomatic pressure, military and economic assistance. d) Spontaneous emulation: an authoritarian state is a cultural, economic, political and military model for other non-democratic regimes, that autonomously follow the leader. A rigid autocracy promotion is based on the support of only authoritarian regimes, while in a flexible relation there is the possibility of a ‘B plan’, by promoting hybrid regimes too. Hard power relations are anchored to direct military interventions, while soft power is based on emulation, diplomatic, economic, indirect military inducements and blackmails. The cases under review in this issue are: China, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Cuba and Venezuela.

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Section: Autocracy Promotion: a Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

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Theoretical framework and comparative analysis of Cuba, Venezuela, Russia, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, China

Fossatti

2022

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“…If there are notable commonalities in speech acts between actors, this may serve as an important indicator that a diffusion process has occurred-and, if strong enough, may provide enough evidence from which to draw solid inferences. Although not explicitly framed in terms of content analysis, Bader's (2014) aforementioned study of post-Soviet election laws examined the actual wording and details of these laws and found that they were often nearly identical and, in some cases, copied verbatim. This was simply too similar to be merely a coincidence and thus served as solid evidence of a copying process.…”

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How do we tell authoritarian diffusion from illusion? Exploring methodological issues of qualitative research on authoritarian diffusion

Ambrosio

Tolstrup

2019

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With the recent proliferation of comparative authoritarianism studies, a new research agenda on authoritarian diffusion has emerged. Authoritarian diffusion concerns the study of how events, institutions, and strategies relevant for autocratic political systems travel between them. So far, scholars have strived towards proving that authoritarian diffusion is real and is happening across a wide range of contexts. Now the time has come for the field to develop further. This involves improving our understanding of how important diffusion effects really are (the effect size), how diffusion effects come about (the mechanisms), and how contextual factors shape these two (diffusion's conditional nature). To do this, more methodological reflection and rigor is needed. The aim of this paper is to push qualitative researchers of authoritarian diffusion to reflect more upon the methodological issues and challenges associated with examining diffusion in autocratic contexts. Based on a survey of the existing qualitative literature, we show that insufficient attention to issues such as case-selection, causal mechanisms and evidentiary requirements, restrictions on data availability, process-tracing methods, and alternative explanations is holding back the emergent research field on authoritarian diffusion. We provide researchers involved in this research agenda with guidance on both potential pitfalls and feasible solutions, and where possible we draw on best-practice examples from within the field itself and the wider diffusion literature. Authoritarian diffusion is a challenging topic to study; only conscious, analytical stringency and serious methodological reflection will pave the way for its further advancement.

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“…Hence, in that case, nobody can be blamed for “export” of certain values, as regimes voluntarily borrow “autocratic know-hows” from abroad (import of autocracy). For example, Max Bader (2014) shows that authoritarian regimes in post-Soviet countries voluntarily borrow and adapt their electoral legislation from the Soviet era and from the modern Russian legislation. 8…”

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Beyond Autocracy Promotion: A Review

Yakouchyk

2018

Political Studies Review

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In this article, I provide a survey of the recent and rapidly growing theoretical and empirical literature on autocracy promotion. In a relatively concise way, the reader is able to grasp all key concepts and related aspects on the topic. This article is a guide for all those aiming to begin their journey in the scholarly land of autocracy promotion, trying to stimulate these travelers in exploring off-beaten research avenues.

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Democracy Promotion and Authoritarian Diffusion: The Foreign Origins of Post-Soviet Election Laws

Cited by 21 publications

References 14 publications

Theoretical framework and comparative analysis of Cuba, Venezuela, Russia, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, China

Theoretical framework and comparative analysis of Cuba, Venezuela, Russia, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, China

How do we tell authoritarian diffusion from illusion? Exploring methodological issues of qualitative research on authoritarian diffusion

Beyond Autocracy Promotion: A Review

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