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Authoritarian contagion : the global threat to democracy /

This innovative book uses examples from around the world to examine the spread of draconian and nationalistic forms of government - 'authoritarian protectionism' - which provides new insight into the changing nature of the authoritarian threat to democracy and how it might be overcome.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cooper, Luke (Lecturer in politics) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2021.
Colección:Bristol shorts insights.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • Epigraph
  • Authoritarian Cobtagion: The Global Threat to Democracy
  • Copyright information
  • Dedication
  • Table of contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • One On the March
  • Democracy versus authoritarianism: some preliminary remarks
  • The march of authoritarianism is uneven but global in reach
  • Authoritarian protectionism: the scope of the book
  • Two Them and Us
  • From authoritarian individualism to authoritarian protectionism?
  • Them and us: democracy against liberty, or liberty against democracy?
  • The hegemony of 'them and us': the ideological logics of authoritarian protectionism
  • Authoritarian protectionism in Hungary and Poland: the politics of blood and soil nationalism
  • 'We the people': incentives and practices of the new authoritarianism in Europe
  • Three 'I Will Protect You'
  • The enduring power of national belonging
  • From 'I won't protect you' to 'I will protect you'?
  • Opponents of democracy can always declare themselves the people's champions
  • Four Pandemic Politics
  • The 21st-century long crisis: the ecological conditions driving pandemic politics
  • COVID-19 has had vastly different impacts on the world's populations
  • The world is not flat: COVID-19 forces us to ask questions about 'the best life'
  • Government via chaos? Different forms of authoritarian protectionism in the COVID-19 crisis
  • The crux of the opportunity for authoritarianism
  • Five Sino-America
  • Trump and Xi: the distorted mirror image
  • 'The Chinese Dream': on the Xi model of authoritarian protectionism
  • Trump versus Xi: competing models of the new authoritarianism
  • The economics of the authoritarian calculation in the United States and the West
  • The new radical right Republicanism: the Reaganite alliance with Trump
  • Varieties of authoritarian protectionism
  • Six Authoritarian Futures?
  • A radical politics of survival towards a new democratic era
  • References
  • Index
  • Back Cover.