Institutionen in autoritären Regimen

Question 1

Elektorale Autokratie:

Answer 1

Schedler 2006 - hold regular elections, but violate liberal-democratic principles at the same time.

Question 2

Pillars of stability

Answer 2

Gerschewski, 2014

• Legitimation
• Repression
• Co-optation

-> Interaktion der pillars of stability; können sich gegenseitig ergänzen.

Question 3

legitimation (Gerschewski, 2014)

Answer 3

autocratic rules cannot rely on repression alone, belief in a “legitimacy idea” necessary

Question 4

repression

Answer 4

Gerschewski 2014

• high (direct repression against know persons)
• low intensity (more subtile, denial of jobs etc…)

Question 5

Co-optation (Gerschewski, 2014)

Answer 5

tie strategically relevant actors to the regime, devide the opposition

Question 6

Regime types

Answer 6

• military regimes
• party-based regime
• personalist regimes

(Geddes.)

Question 7

military regime:

Answer 7

a group of officers decides who will rule

Question 8

party-based regime:

Answer 8

the dominant party controls the access to spoils and political office.

Question 9

personalist regimes

Answer 9

access to office and the fruits of office depend on the discretion of an individual leader personalist regimes can be founded by a military dictator who then creates a single party to support him, neither the party nor the military exercise any independent decision-making-power.

Question 10

Funktionen von Parlament:

Answer 10

heben wichtige Funtkionen für Demokratie: Repräsentation, Gesetzgebung, Kontrolle der Exekutive.

Question 11

“representation within bounds”=

Answer 11

narrower concept of substantive representation (on a subset of issues).