In a global context in which authoritarian regimes often hold elections, defeating dictators at the polls can play a key role in transitions to democracy. When the opposition is allowed to campaign for votes in such elections, there are strong reasons to believe that its efforts will be more persuasive than those of the authoritarian incumbent. This article examines the effect of televised camp...

in the present article, the author has replaced the concept of “globalization” with “globecomization” and through formulating the concept of “bioculture”. the article attempts to explain novel mechanism and techniques of “power”to manage individuals and the population. the author has defined “bioculture” as a new style of governance through an alloy-like composition of “power, technology and ps...

Abstract In the context of reconfigured state-society relation, Chinese states’ modes crisis management have profoundly transformed, featuring state’s greater efforts in reconciling conflicts among state machinery capital accumulation, political stability maintenance and increasingly diversified societal needs. However, how local performs specific missions accordingly handling day-to-day on gro...

The current proliferation of authoritarianism across both core and periphery is one political articulation the crisis capitalist world-system. Authoritarianism similarly proliferated in previous periods crisis, 1970s 1980s peripheries, 1930s 1940s core. In Part I this essay, detail how world-systems analysts have long been attuned to describing analyzing chaotic moments between systemic cycles ...