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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815509303321

Titolo

Authoritarianism goes global : the challenge to democracy / / edited by Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner, and Christopher Walker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-4214-1998-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Collana

A journal of democracy book

Disciplina

320.53

Soggetti

Authoritarianism

Democracy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-Title; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE: THE AUTHORITARIAN ""BIG FIVE""; 1 China's Challenge; 2 Forward to the Past in Russia; 3 Iran's Paradoxical Regime; 4 Iran Abroad; 5 Autocratic Legalism in Venezuela; 6 Saudi Arabia's Anxious Autocrats; PART TWO: ARENAS OF ""SOFT-POWER"" COMPETITION; 7 Countering Democratic Norms; 8 Election Monitoring vs. Disinformation; 9 The Leninist Roots of Civil Society Repression; 10 Civil Society Under Assault; 11 The Kremlin's Information War; 12 China's Foreign Propaganda Machine; 13 Cyberspace Under Siege

14 Dealing with the Authoritarian ResurgenceAbout the Authors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z