Competitive authoritarianism and popular protest

Evidence from Serbia under Milošević

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6299755
AutoresNebojša Vladisavljević (0000-0002-0131-2140, University of Belgrade, Serbia, autor correspondente)
Ano2016
Volume37
Fascículo1
Páginas36-50
Data de publicação2016-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Political Science Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0192-5121 • E-ISSN: 1460-373X
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0192512114535450
OpenAlexW2323728563
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas32
Referências citadas21

This article explores the relationship between competitive authoritarianism and popular protest. Building upon comparative regime analysis and social movement research, it argues that this hybrid regime type facilitates popular protest by providing opposition forces with considerable institutional resources to organize themselves and confront regime elites, along with grievances that provide strong incentives for popular challenges. In turn, popular protest may trigger regime crisis and extract important concessions from regime incumbents. In the long run, popular politics strongly shapes the interests, identities and capacities of regime elites and opposition forces, as well as the regime’s formal and/or informal institutions, and may lead to government change and/or regime change. Evidence is provided from Serbia under Milošević, which experienced massive opposition protest campaigns in 1991, 1992, 1996-1997, 1999 and 2000, which resulted in regime change

Authoritarianism · Contentious politics · Democracy · Economic system · Economics · Incentive · Market economy · Opposition (politics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Regime change · Social movement · Sociology · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Political Conflict and Governance