vulnerability and compensation: constructing an index of co-optation in autocratic regimes

Schmotz, Alexander

doi:10.1057/eps.2015.62

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“…Future research might use more finely graded distinctions in this regard. 11 The index of Schmotz (2015) provides data until 2009. Yet, since the unit of analysis in this article is not single regime years but longer time spans of regimes, the effect of this missing year of observation in one indicator is assumed to be quite small.…”

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“…For the operationalization of the first form of co-optation, I follow Schmotz (2015) and his innovative way of defining co-optation as compensating vulnerability. Schmotz constructs a comprehensive index that looks at six different socioeconomic pressure groups (military, capital, parties, labour, ethnic groups, landowners), their individual strength and ambition to exert pressure and a regime’s capacity to compensate for these pressures by providing material benefits or institutional inclusion 11 .…”

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The Many Faces of Authoritarian Persistence: A Set-Theory Perspective on the Survival Strategies of Authoritarian Regimes

Maerz

2018

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This article examines how authoritarian regimes combine various strategies of repression, co-optation and legitimation to remain in power. The contribution of the article is two-fold. First, I conceptualize the hexagon of authoritarian persistence as a framework to explain how authoritarian regimes manage to survive. The hexagon is based on Gerschewski’s (2013) three pillars of stability but proposes some crucial modifications. In contrast to the model of the three pillars, the hexagon can grasp the causal complexity of autocratic survival because it is rooted in set theory and accounts for asymmetric causal relations, conjunctural causation and equifinality. Based on this, it illuminates how authoritarian regimes use multiple, mutually non-exclusive survival strategies. The second contribution is an empirical exploration which applies the hexagon and provides a case-oriented analysis of 62 persistent and non-persistent authoritarian regimes (1991–2010). By using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis, the findings of this assessment illustrate five configurations of the hexagon – called hegemonic, performance-dependent, rigid, overcompensating and adaptive authoritarianism – as those combinations of strategies which facilitate authoritarian survival.

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The Many Faces of Authoritarian Persistence: A Set-Theory Perspective on the Survival Strategies of Authoritarian Regimes

Maerz

2018

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“…Starting from 2006 the space for civil society organizations and the media to hold the government to account is restricted even further as the decline in the diagonal accountability index illustrates. Demonstrating theoretically-expected effects in regression analysis is a key method to validate indices (Schmotz 2015). Based on prior research, we expect human development to improve as a government becomes more accountable (Gerring et al 2012, World Bank Institute 2005, Miller 2015.…”

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Constraining Governments: New Indices of Vertical, Horizontal and Diagonal Accountability

2017

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Accountability -constraints on the government's use of political power -is one of the cornerstones of good governance. However, conceptual stretching and a lack of reliable measures have limited cross-national research and comparisons regarding the role of both accountability writ large and its different sub-types. To address this research gap, we use the VDem dataset and Bayesian statistical models to develop new ways to conceptualize and measure accountability and its core dimensions. We provide indices capturing the extent to which governments are accountable to citizens (vertical accountability), other state institutions (horizontal accountability) and the media and civil society (diagonal accountability), as well as an aggregate index that incorporates the three sub-types. These indices cover virtually all countries from 1900 to today. We demonstrate the validity of our new measures by analyzing trends from key countries, as well as by demonstrating that the measures are positively related to development outcomes such as health and education.4

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“…However, co-optation need not be a phenomenon exclusively involving elites nor is it uniform phenomenon. In a typology of co-optation variances, Schmotz (2015) refers to a co-optation concerning a distribution of material goods to compensate for vulnerability:…”

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Authoritarian regime stabilization through legitimation, popular co-optation, and exclusion: Russianpasportizatsiyastrategies in Crimea

Wrighton

2017

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In the spring of 2014, Russian authorities distributed, rapidly and on mass, Russian passports to their newly and controversially acquired citizens within Crimea. This passport distribution strategy, or pasportizatsiya, can be seen as a continuation of the Soviet practice which was conducted to spatially control a population. In focusing on the most contemporary instance of this practice, this paper asks: how and why did pasportizatsiya take place in Crimea? The research involved a processed-focused empirical data collection, consisting of interviews conducted with Crimeans and NGO representatives. The article finds that distribution of Russian passports to Ukrainian citizens in Crimea provided the Russian Federation with a regime stabilization mechanism, through the population within their new and controversially acquired territorial borders.

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vulnerability and compensation: constructing an index of co-optation in autocratic regimes

Cited by 18 publications

References 36 publications

The Many Faces of Authoritarian Persistence: A Set-Theory Perspective on the Survival Strategies of Authoritarian Regimes

The Many Faces of Authoritarian Persistence: A Set-Theory Perspective on the Survival Strategies of Authoritarian Regimes

Constraining Governments: New Indices of Vertical, Horizontal and Diagonal Accountability

Authoritarian regime stabilization through legitimation, popular co-optation, and exclusion: Russianpasportizatsiyastrategies in Crimea

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