Marianne Kneuer
Biographic Data
| ID | 261629 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marianne Kneuer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marianne |
| FAMILY NAME | Kneuer |
| SIGNATURE | KNEUER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hildesheim |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9879-5953 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 157 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 30 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The sequencing of academic freedom violations during democratic erosion
This paper addresses the widely accepted but still little elaborated observation that democratic erosion evolves in a sequential manner. We argue that the violation of academic freedom takes place after the incumbent erosion agents changed the democratic rules and secured grip on power. The analysis bases on a focused comparison of two cases of democratic erosion in the European Union – Hungary (2010–) and Poland (2015–2023) – tracing the evoluti…
Solidarity versus security? Tracing shifts in the citizens’ discourse during the ‘migration crisis’ in Germany
Internet Control and Disinformation Across Regime Types During and After the Covid‐19 Crisis
The unprecedented scale of mitigation measures taken by governments during the Covid-19 pandemic raised concerns about if and to what extent democracy would be affected. Empirical accounts show that media freedom was the most vulnerable. This article concentrates on interference in digital media, as attacks on the digital realm during the pandemic were particularly harmful given that media activity moved from print to online all over the world. T…
Communication and democratic erosion
In recent years, many once stable democracies have experienced various degrees of disruptive communication, along with the erosion of core institutions such as the press, elections, courts, and the rights of citizens. We propose a framework to compare the logics of illiberal and liberal democratic communication and contrast traditionally dominant communication norms of tolerance, civility, responsiveness, and reasoned resolution of differences in…
Sovereignism as a product of crises
Forum
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a dramatic influence on mortality and public health and generated much speculation on potential impacts on international politics. Fast-moving crises such as the COVID pandemic and 2008 financial crises entail many challenges for scholarship; events evolve rapidly, our prior knowledge base is limited, it is unclear whether existing theories or analogies apply, and new research findings emerge quickly but also erratic…
I Trends on Democratic Erosion
Democratic erosion has become the main path of movement away from democracy since 1990. Distinct from abrupt breakdowns like coups d’état, executive coups, military defeat, or foreign invasions, the erosion of democratic systems occurs as a gradual and incremental process, driven by legally elected incumbents and by legal means (or by upholding the façade of legal means). These incumbents are change agents who deliberately and actively endeavor t…
Framing Covid-19
While communication generally embodies an essential part of public leadership, this is even more true in times of crisis when uncertainty prevails, and the public expects the leader not only to take adequate measures to mitigate the crisis, but also to justify and explain these measures. In the COVID-19 pandemic, Angela Merkel's communication differed from other Western political leaders who strongly relied on a war narrative. This paper focuses …
Exporting the Chavista Model
President Hugo Chávez strove to change the socio-political and economic system of his country, Venezuela. His revolutionary mission implied a strong regional projection and was intended to disseminate his transformative project in the wider region. This article focuses on the outward-directed efforts of Chávez to shape his regional environment and examines the active and intended promotion of the Chavista model. The analysis shows that Chávez's m…
Claiming solidarity
Solidarity is one of the central concepts in social theory and has gained much attention due to the multiple challenges that the EU has been facing the last decade and due to the most recent COVID-19 pandemic. Although the debate on the nature and conditions of solidarity has been revitalized, there remains a large variety in how to conceptualize solidarity. In contrast to other approaches, we do not conceive solidarity as normative concept, but …
Unravelling democratic erosion
Empirical evidence points to democratic erosion as dominant pattern in Post-Cold War cases. The debate about democratic erosion so far remains fragmented due to the proliferation of labels, and the lack of conceptualization and a shared definition. This paper presents a concept of democratic erosion as a route of "slow death" of democracy developing three definatory features: agency, opportunity and sequencing. Regarding the drivers of this chang…
The Ongoing Transformation of the Digital Public Sphere
The recent decades more than anything else have revealed the ambivalence not only of the articulated expectations about the digital public sphere but also of the ‘real’ development itself. This thematic issue of Media and Communication highlights some of the criticalities and specificities of the evolution of the public sphere during this period where digital communication ecosystems are becoming increasingly central. The different articles offer…
Authoritarian Gravity Centers
Authoritarian Gravity Centers
E-Government im internationalen Vergleich
Playing the regional card
The evidence of regional authoritarian clustering across different world regions goes together with the finding that after the end of the bipolar world regional patterns of interaction became more important. Especially in the 2000s a process of revitalisation of regional organisations and even the creation of new regional organisations took place. Interestingly, these newly founded organisations consist predominantly of authoritarian regimes. Due…
Handbuch Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
The tandem of populism and Euroscepticism
Although populism does not constitute a new phenomenon per se, the recent success of older and the proliferation of new populist parties bring them a renewed attention. It is an obvious assumption that the multiple crises that Europe experienced in the last decade had a major impact on the development of populist and Eurosceptic parties. This article explicitly focuses the mélange of populist and Eurosceptic parties in the context of the European…
Digitale Medien und Kommunikation in der Vergleichenden Politikwissenschaft
Legitimation beyond ideology
Handbuch Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
Gero Erdmann-Preis für vergleichende Area-Forschung 2016
Digitale Medien und ihre Wirkung auf demokratische Prozesse
E-democracy
Digital media is ascribed significant potential for democratizing political communication and processes. There is still, however, a lack of empirical evidence and adequate understanding concerning the question of whether digital media can contribute to an improvement in democratic quality. In response to this question, the present article proposes a concept of e-democracy and an analytical framework for measuring it. The added value of such an e-…
Measuring the quality of democracy
This introductory article discusses current challenges in quality of democracy research, explains the objectives of this Special Issue, and provides a brief overview of controversies in existing indices that are considered by the contributors to this Special Issue
Gravity centres of authoritarian rule
The resilience of autocratic regimes in various world regions and the emerging model of illiberal capitalist autocracies (China, Russia) have led scholars to shift their attention to the durability of such regimes. Autocracies not only resist the global spread of democracy, but are developing their own domestic efforts in the promotion of autocracy. This study argues that processes at the regional level aim at the dissemination and diffusion of a…
Unravelling democratic erosion
Empirical evidence points to democratic erosion as dominant pattern in Post-Cold War cases. The debate about democratic erosion so far remains fragmented due to the proliferation of labels, and the lack of conceptualization and a shared definition. This paper presents a concept of democratic erosion as a route of "slow death" of democracy developing three definatory features: agency, opportunity and sequencing. Regarding the drivers of this chang…
Playing the regional card
The evidence of regional authoritarian clustering across different world regions goes together with the finding that after the end of the bipolar world regional patterns of interaction became more important. Especially in the 2000s a process of revitalisation of regional organisations and even the creation of new regional organisations took place. Interestingly, these newly founded organisations consist predominantly of authoritarian regimes. Due…
E-democracy
Digital media is ascribed significant potential for democratizing political communication and processes. There is still, however, a lack of empirical evidence and adequate understanding concerning the question of whether digital media can contribute to an improvement in democratic quality. In response to this question, the present article proposes a concept of e-democracy and an analytical framework for measuring it. The added value of such an e-…
Framing Covid-19
While communication generally embodies an essential part of public leadership, this is even more true in times of crisis when uncertainty prevails, and the public expects the leader not only to take adequate measures to mitigate the crisis, but also to justify and explain these measures. In the COVID-19 pandemic, Angela Merkel's communication differed from other Western political leaders who strongly relied on a war narrative. This paper focuses …
Who is greener? Climate action and political regimes
Climate change constitutes a major concern for all political regimes. The question, however, is whether different regime types show different degrees of disposition to reduce carbon emissions. Studies comparing the performance between democracies and autocracies provide us with some fundamental findings but most do not take into consideration the variety of regimes that are neither full democracies nor full autocracies. The perspective of this in…
Measuring the quality of democracy
This introductory article discusses current challenges in quality of democracy research, explains the objectives of this Special Issue, and provides a brief overview of controversies in existing indices that are considered by the contributors to this Special Issue
The tandem of populism and Euroscepticism
Although populism does not constitute a new phenomenon per se, the recent success of older and the proliferation of new populist parties bring them a renewed attention. It is an obvious assumption that the multiple crises that Europe experienced in the last decade had a major impact on the development of populist and Eurosceptic parties. This article explicitly focuses the mélange of populist and Eurosceptic parties in the context of the European…
Communication and democratic erosion
In recent years, many once stable democracies have experienced various degrees of disruptive communication, along with the erosion of core institutions such as the press, elections, courts, and the rights of citizens. We propose a framework to compare the logics of illiberal and liberal democratic communication and contrast traditionally dominant communication norms of tolerance, civility, responsiveness, and reasoned resolution of differences in…
Claiming solidarity
Solidarity is one of the central concepts in social theory and has gained much attention due to the multiple challenges that the EU has been facing the last decade and due to the most recent COVID-19 pandemic. Although the debate on the nature and conditions of solidarity has been revitalized, there remains a large variety in how to conceptualize solidarity. In contrast to other approaches, we do not conceive solidarity as normative concept, but …
I Trends on Democratic Erosion
Democratic erosion has become the main path of movement away from democracy since 1990. Distinct from abrupt breakdowns like coups d’état, executive coups, military defeat, or foreign invasions, the erosion of democratic systems occurs as a gradual and incremental process, driven by legally elected incumbents and by legal means (or by upholding the façade of legal means). These incumbents are change agents who deliberately and actively endeavor t…
Exporting the Chavista Model
President Hugo Chávez strove to change the socio-political and economic system of his country, Venezuela. His revolutionary mission implied a strong regional projection and was intended to disseminate his transformative project in the wider region. This article focuses on the outward-directed efforts of Chávez to shape his regional environment and examines the active and intended promotion of the Chavista model. The analysis shows that Chávez's m…
Internet Control and Disinformation Across Regime Types During and After the Covid‐19 Crisis
The unprecedented scale of mitigation measures taken by governments during the Covid-19 pandemic raised concerns about if and to what extent democracy would be affected. Empirical accounts show that media freedom was the most vulnerable. This article concentrates on interference in digital media, as attacks on the digital realm during the pandemic were particularly harmful given that media activity moved from print to online all over the world. T…
Forum
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a dramatic influence on mortality and public health and generated much speculation on potential impacts on international politics. Fast-moving crises such as the COVID pandemic and 2008 financial crises entail many challenges for scholarship; events evolve rapidly, our prior knowledge base is limited, it is unclear whether existing theories or analogies apply, and new research findings emerge quickly but also erratic…
Gut gemeint heißt nicht gut gemacht. Zur Debatte um das CHE-Ranking in der Politikwissenschaft
Journal of Pol itical Science (ZPol) is devoted to all areas and sub-areas of Political Science. The priority of this journal is to provide a platform for carrying on critical debates on basic, theoretical and practice-oriented political science. The high quality of the main articles published is ensured by double blind peer review. The journal publishes articles, essays, commentaries and short analyses of urgent political affairs. Website: www.z…
Demokratisierung durch die EU
Deutliche Konjunktur — Literaturbericht über Einführungen zur Vergleichenden Politikwissenschaft
Politikwissenschaft in Deutschland
Transformationsforschung, Systemwechselforschung, Demokratieforschung
Who is greener? Climate action and political regimes
Climate change constitutes a major concern for all political regimes. The question, however, is whether different regime types show different degrees of disposition to reduce carbon emissions. Studies comparing the performance between democracies and autocracies provide us with some fundamental findings but most do not take into consideration the variety of regimes that are neither full democracies nor full autocracies. The perspective of this in…
Regression of Democracy?
Gut gemeint heißt nicht gut gemacht. Zur Debatte um das CHE-Ranking in der Politikwissenschaft
Journal of Pol itical Science (ZPol) is devoted to all areas and sub-areas of Political Science. The priority of this journal is to provide a platform for carrying on critical debates on basic, theoretical and practice-oriented political science. The high quality of the main articles published is ensured by double blind peer review. The journal publishes articles, essays, commentaries and short analyses of urgent political affairs. Website: www.z…
Externe Faktoren der Demokratisierung
Neopatrimonialism, democracy, and party research
Handbuch Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
Gero Erdmann-Preis für vergleichende Area-Forschung 2016
Digitale Medien und ihre Wirkung auf demokratische Prozesse
E-democracy
Digital media is ascribed significant potential for democratizing political communication and processes. There is still, however, a lack of empirical evidence and adequate understanding concerning the question of whether digital media can contribute to an improvement in democratic quality. In response to this question, the present article proposes a concept of e-democracy and an analytical framework for measuring it. The added value of such an e-…
Measuring the quality of democracy
This introductory article discusses current challenges in quality of democracy research, explains the objectives of this Special Issue, and provides a brief overview of controversies in existing indices that are considered by the contributors to this Special Issue
Gravity centres of authoritarian rule
The resilience of autocratic regimes in various world regions and the emerging model of illiberal capitalist autocracies (China, Russia) have led scholars to shift their attention to the durability of such regimes. Autocracies not only resist the global spread of democracy, but are developing their own domestic efforts in the promotion of autocracy. This study argues that processes at the regional level aim at the dissemination and diffusion of a…
Digitale Medien und Kommunikation in der Vergleichenden Politikwissenschaft
Legitimation beyond ideology
Handbuch Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
The tandem of populism and Euroscepticism
Although populism does not constitute a new phenomenon per se, the recent success of older and the proliferation of new populist parties bring them a renewed attention. It is an obvious assumption that the multiple crises that Europe experienced in the last decade had a major impact on the development of populist and Eurosceptic parties. This article explicitly focuses the mélange of populist and Eurosceptic parties in the context of the European…
E-Government im internationalen Vergleich
Playing the regional card
The evidence of regional authoritarian clustering across different world regions goes together with the finding that after the end of the bipolar world regional patterns of interaction became more important. Especially in the 2000s a process of revitalisation of regional organisations and even the creation of new regional organisations took place. Interestingly, these newly founded organisations consist predominantly of authoritarian regimes. Due…
The Ongoing Transformation of the Digital Public Sphere
The recent decades more than anything else have revealed the ambivalence not only of the articulated expectations about the digital public sphere but also of the ‘real’ development itself. This thematic issue of Media and Communication highlights some of the criticalities and specificities of the evolution of the public sphere during this period where digital communication ecosystems are becoming increasingly central. The different articles offer…
Authoritarian Gravity Centers
Authoritarian Gravity Centers
Unravelling democratic erosion
Empirical evidence points to democratic erosion as dominant pattern in Post-Cold War cases. The debate about democratic erosion so far remains fragmented due to the proliferation of labels, and the lack of conceptualization and a shared definition. This paper presents a concept of democratic erosion as a route of "slow death" of democracy developing three definatory features: agency, opportunity and sequencing. Regarding the drivers of this chang…
Political science (25 works) · Law (22 works) · Politics (22 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Democracy (16 works) · Law (16 works) · Political economy (13 works) · Economics (10 works) · Political Conflict and Governance (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works)