Authoritarian Leadership in the Post-Communist World

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9685544
AutoresEugene Huskey (0000-0002-3527-2300, Kutafin Moscow State Law University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Volumen145
Número3
Páginas69-82
Fecha de publicación2016-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDaedalus (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0011-5266 • E-ISSN: 1548-6192
EditorialMIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1162/daed_a_00398
OpenAlexW2461273369
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9

A quarter-century after the collapse of the USSR, authoritarian politics dominates seven of the fifteen successor states. Placing the post-communist authoritarian experience in the broader frame of nondemocratic governance, this essay explores the origins and operation of personalist rule in the region; the relationship between time and power; and the role of Soviet legacies in shaping the agenda and tools of leadership. It also examines the efforts of post-communist authoritarians to enhance personal and regime legitimacy by claiming to rule beyond politics. Within the post-communist world, the essay finds significant variation among authoritarian leaders in their approaches to personnel policy and to the use of policies, symbols, and narratives to address the ethnic and religious awakening spawned by the collapse of Soviet rule. The essay concludes with a brief assessment of the trajectories of post-communist authoritarian leadership

Authoritarianism · Communism · Corporate governance · Democracy · Economics · Legitimacy · Management · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Successor cardinal · Law · Russia and Soviet political economy