Behrend / Whitehead Illiberal Practices

Territorial Variance within Large Federal Democracies
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4214-1959-6
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

What drives the uneven distribution of democratic practices at the subnational level?

Within subunits of a democratic federation, lasting political practices that restrict choice, limit debate, and exclude or distort democratic participation have been analyzed in recent scholarship as subnational authoritarianism. Once a critical number of citizens or regions band together in these practices, they can leverage illiberal efforts at the federal level.

This timely, data-driven book compares federations that underwent transitions in the first, second, and third waves of democratization and offers a substantial expansion of the concept of subnational authoritarianism. The eleven expert political scientists featured in this text examine the nature and scope of subnational democratic variations within six large federations, including the United States, India, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, and Russia. Illiberal Practices makes the case that subnational units are more likely to operate by means of illiberal structures and practices than as fully authoritarian regimes.

Detailed case studies examine uneven levels of citizenship in each federal system. These are distributed unequally across the different regions of the country and display semi-democratic or hybrid characteristics. Appropriate for scholars and students of democratization, authoritarianism, federalism, decentralization, and comparative politics, Illiberal Practices sheds light on the uneven extension of democracy within countries that have already democratized.

Contributors: Jacqueline Behrend, André Borges, Julián Durazo Herrmann, Carlos Gervasoni, Edward L. Gibson, Desmond King, Inga A.-L. Saikkonen, Celina Souza, Maya Tudor, Laurence Whitehead, Adam Ziegfeld

Autoren/Hrsg.

Behrend, Jacqueline

Whitehead, Laurence

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Setting the Comparative Agenda: Territorially Uneven Democratization Processes in Large Federations
Part I: The United States and India in Historical Perspective

Chapter 2. Federalism and Subnational Democratization in the United States: The South in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Chapter 3. Subnational Democratization in India: The Role of Colonial Competition and Central Intervention
Part II: The Diverse Origins of Illiberal Structures and Practices in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico

Chapter 4. Federal Intervention and Subnational Democratization in Argentina: A Comparative Perspective
Chapter 5. The Dimensions of Democratic and Hybrid Subnational Regimes: Evidence from an Expert Survey in Argentina
Chapter 6. Subnational Hybrid Regimes and Democratization in Brazil: Why Party Nationalization Matters
Chapter 7. The Rise and Fall of Illiberal Politics in the Brazilian State of Bahia
Chapter 8. Social Heterogeneity, Political Mediation, and Subnational Illiberalism: Oaxaca and Puebla, Mexico
Part III: Russia and the Boundaries of Democracy
Chapter 9. Subnational Democratization and Electoral Authoritarianism in Russia: From Subnational Regime Diversity to Unitary Authoritarianism
Part IV: Mapping the Cases
Chapter 10. Uneven Processes and Multiple Pathways
Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Whitehead, Laurence
Laurence Whitehead is a senior research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University. He is the author of Democratization: Theory and Experience.

Behrend, Jacqueline
Jacqueline Behrend is a professor of political science at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín and a tenured researcher at the Argentine National Council for Scientific and Technical Research.

Jacqueline Behrend is a professor of political science at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín and a tenured researcher at the Argentine National Council for Scientific and Technical Research. Laurence Whitehead is a senior research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University. He is the author of Democratization: Theory and Experience.