La Monarchie adaptative. Le consensus monarchiste du libéralisme espagnol dans la crise de 1848 by Pedro Díaz Marín

“…Despite these differences, Spanish liberalism managed to forge a consensus around the defense of the Monarchy, which favored its survival until 1868, by adapting to an increasingly exclusive and authoritarian political context. …”
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Democracy and principles of socio-economic development by A. A. Sychev, E. V. Zaytseva, P. S. Tolkachev

“…The article examines the existing political and economic trends: democratic and authoritarian forms of government. An attempt is made to describe the essential content of the values of democracy, as well as their implementation in the economic sphere. …”
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Taḥyâ as-sînamâ ! Produire du sens : les enjeux politiques de l’expression dans l’espace public by Cécile Boëx

“…This particular approach will enable us to cast light on the attempts of an authoritarian regime to control the production of meaning and impose its interpretation of events. …”
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“Old soldiers need only apply”: Exploring Pathways to the Quasi-Civilianisation of the Maritime Sector in Indonesia by I Gusti Bagus Dharma Agastia

“…This paper represents an exploratory attempt at advancing the discussion of quasi-civilianisation by exploring the phenomenon in the maritime sector in post-authoritarian Indonesia.…”
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MILITARISM AND FEAR IN A TIME OF PANDEMIC IN THE PHILIPPINES: TOWARDS A THEOLOGY OF TRANSGRESSION by K.C. Meneses

“… The pandemic was an opportunity for authoritarian regimes to intensify militarism and cultivate fear, resulting in the disablement of the most vulnerable in society. …”
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Les violences politiques dans les Etats de la Caraïbe insulaire (1945 à nos jours) by Laurent Jalabert

“…Political violence has developed into a form of political culture, in authoritarian regimes (Cuba, Haiti, Santo Domingo), as well as in countries engaged in a democractic process (Haiti, Santo Domingo) or even in the democracies (Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago). …”
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“Strange Sights and Sounds”: Indirection and the Rhetoric of the Feminine in Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s Tales (1852-1930) by Audrey Fogels

“…Such a rhetoric of indirection becomes all the more intricate as these stories are haunted by spectral but authoritarian male figures whose presence both facilitates and blocks the possibility of revelation. …”
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Crisis as opportunity—manifestations of civic practice in Libyan governance and rule of law by Anne-Marie Brinkman

“…In Libya’s protracted conflict, authoritarian, illiberal, and democratic practises exist at local and (inter)national levels. …”
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Construcciones visuales y memorias de la dictadura de Pinochet a través de películas y reportajes extranjeros (1973-2013) by Marcy Campos Pérez

“…It argues that, as a result of censorship and the lack of images, two main characteristics of authoritarian regimes, these productions acquired a particular value, becoming archival images or visual testimonies that will be used during the post-dictatorship era as visual references for historical reconstructions. …”
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The antinomian framework of Western and non-Western democracies—from theory to application by Oliver Fernando Hidalgo

“…This should help to avoid both the blind spots of Eurocentrism and the misperception of countries as democracies that are merely masking their authoritarian or despotic character. The result is a theory of popular sovereignty that seeks to grasp and combine Western and non-Western conceptions of democracy in a balanced way and is based on a genealogical and comparative perspective of the history of political ideas in the global North and South. …”
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Posicionamento político, conhecimento histórico e pensamento utópico: Uma análise com dados quantitativos de jovens dos Campos Gerais/Pr - 2017 by Matheus Mendanha Cruz

“…In general lines it is possible point what the persons what opted for authoritarian exits were the same what demonstrated smaller knowledge about the regime what profess as model for solve the problems of the Brasil.…”
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Les États-Unis, l’Europe et la Libye : de la réhabilitation de Kadhafi à son renversement by Yahia Zoubir

“…This rehabilitation has left his authoritarian system intact. This article shows how Gaddafi managed to pursue a policy based opportunistic pragmatism which allowed him to survive and prolong the existence of his regime until 2011.…”
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Gardé·es à vue. Domination(s) et reconfigurations des rapports entre manifestant·es et policier·es pendant le hirak (2019-2021) by Lina Benchekor

“…Since the beginning of the protest movement in Algeria, several thousand citizens have been confronted with repression. In an authoritarian regime shaken by a large-scale social movement, the hirak participants’ experience of repression provides an insight into the workings of the coercive apparatus and the interactions that unfold between the forces of law and order and activists. …”
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Tolérance et transgressivité : le jeu à somme nulle des gauchistes et des islamistes tunisiens by Michaël Béchir Ayari

“…During this period, the authoritarian state allowed some form of opposition while repressing another. …”
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Le mouvement protestataire algérien de 2019 à la lumière de la théorie des mouvements sociaux et des Printemps arabes by Frédéric Volpi

“…In this light, this contribution seeks to reposition this particular movement within the larger field of social movements in order to highlight its likely trajectory as well as its novel character in relation to the reconfiguration of authoritarian governance in the country.…”
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Les protestations populaires à l’assaut des régimes autoritaires : une « révolution » pour les sciences sociales ? by Vincent Geisser

“…The purpose of this study is to show that the ongoing collapse of authoritarian regimes did not start with the 2010-2011 Arab Spring. …”
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The Justification of Tyrannicide in the Chronicle of Dalimil. The Czech Nobility as the “Mystical Body” of the Realm by Éloïse Adde

“…In this text, the necessity of the application of the tyrannicide is not however presented as a novelty, but as a fundamental and almost moral duty of the nobility, which was abandoned because of the rise of the authoritarian exercise of the power by the ruler when the duchy of Bohemia became a Kingdom.…”
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Who’s afraid of Sahra – Understanding the shift in votes towards Germany’s Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht by Leon Heckmann, L Constantin Wurthmann, Sarah Wagner

“…The emergence of the left-authoritarian Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) has profoundly disrupted the German party system. …”
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MODERNIZATION, OPTIMIZATION, BUREAUCRATIZATION... WHAT AWAITS HIGHER SCHOOL TOMORROW? by Lyudmila F. Krasinskaya

“…The article analyzes the negative trends in higher education development in the country caused by a change in the state education policy in terms of crisis, the optimization of financial costs, the intensification of the authoritarian-bureaucratic methods of educational institution management. …”
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Retour sur la révolte du bassin minier. Les cinq leçons politiques d’un conflit social inédit by Larbi Chouikha, Vincent Geisser

“…First, the state’s security apparatus and authoritarian methods proved inadequate to the maintenance of public order, to such an extent that there were questions about the coherence of the law enforcement system. …”
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