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Paradoxes of the New Authoritarianism
- Journal of Democracy
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 22, Number 2, April 2011
- pp. 5-16
- 10.1353/jod.2011.0027
- Article
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In this article, which is adapted from the seventh annual Seymour Martin Lipset Lecture on Democracy in the World, Ivan Krastev addresses three main questions: 1) Why are authoritarian regimes surviving in the age of democratization? 2) Why did political science fail to anticipate the resilience of these regimes? and 3) Why it is so difficult to resist contemporary authoritarianism?