The article deals with the economic behaviour of a hypothetical political leader in the institutionally underdeveloped democratic environment of a transitional society. By using Stigler-Peltzman’s model of economic regulation, it has been shown that there is no optimal solution for an autocratic leader. In the long run, wealth transfer to political supporters alone is not sufficient for the aut...

Once depicted as a flagship case for the soft power—based foreign policy of young democracies, Turkey’s conduct affairs following its authoritarian backsliding has been increasingly associated with hard power. Using Africa under AKP, this article challenges reading and underlying conceptual assumptions. To overcome spurious democracy—soft power vs. autocracy—hard dichotomy, it argues adopting p...

Abstract Building on previous quantitative and qualitative research cross-country differences similarities in regulation of religion, this paper employs data for 2000 2014 from the third round Religion State project uses various cluster analysis techniques to identify country clusters based form which countries regulate religion. The separates between democratic authoritarian countries. We furt...

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The article discusses the current revision of Western philosophical concepts, socio-cultural practices, culture everyday life, which hinder formation a nationally, civilizationally oriented worldview modern Russian youth. Interfering with almost main task national system education and upbringing — patriotic reader’s attention is focused on origins postmodern referring to works W. Reich, G. Marc...

The functioning of the constitutional courts is a European standard, widely accepted also in post-Soviet countries. following paper looks at basic legal provisions Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia from comparative perspective. While Armenia undertake some democratic reforms, Azerbaijan remains consolidated autocracy, what justifies such comparisons. It argues that despite being line with practi...

This study asks how the concept of neoliberalism can be adapted to a critical analysis authoritarian political and media cultures that cannot adequately understood through Western-centric narratives dominate literature on neoliberalism. We examine case Vietnam, country where relationship between system is defined primarily by power party-state autocracy. explore extent which useful theoretical ...

Russia's defeat in the Crimean War cast new doubt upon the fundamental political traditions, social structures, national myths of the Nikolaevan era. It precipitated wide-ranging reforms, including military reforms, which were predicated on a shift in mentality. This essay examines the new notions of heroism that circulated among Russia's emerging public sphere during and after the war. It anal...

While offering tax incentives to attract foreign direct investment has become a global phenomenon and part of economic globalization in the 1990s, it also is political and controversial. But the political determinants of tax incentive policies have rarely been analyzed. This article fills this gap by making two contributions. First, I offer a theory that explains how political regime type influ...