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Illiberal Practices: Territorial Variance within Large Federal Democracies
Jacqueline Behrend
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Description for Illiberal Practices: Territorial Variance within Large Federal Democracies
Paperback. -L. Saikkonen, Celina Souza, Maya Tudor, Laurence Whitehead, Adam Ziegfeld Editor(s): Behrend, Jacqueline; Whitehead, Laurence. Num Pages: 320 pages, 20 black & white line drawings, 4 maps. BIC Classification: JPA; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421419589
SKU
V9781421419589
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About Jacqueline Behrend
Jacqueline Behrend is a professor of political science at the Universidad Nacional de San Martin 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.
Reviews for Illiberal Practices: Territorial Variance within Large Federal Democracies
... this book is a timely contribution to the growing literature on subnational political regimes in democracies around the world, which scholars of comparative democratization, subnational politics, and local governance will find equally interesting.
Publius
... this book is a timely contribution to the growing literature on subnational political regimes in democracies around the world, which scholars of ... Read more
Publius
... this book is a timely contribution to the growing literature on subnational political regimes in democracies around the world, which scholars of ... Read more