Democracy, Authoritarianism, and Policy Punctuations

Policy Punctuations : US Budget

Authoritarianism, Democracy and the Transition to Socialism

Democracy and policy stability

Available online 23 October 2015 We explain stable growth performance in democracies by characterizing political systems in terms of the distribution of political power across groups, and show when the qualities of policy alternatives are uncertain, greater democracy (decentralization of authority) leads to more stable policy choices. We empirically test this mechanism by creating measures of t...

A Brief Analysis on Elite Democracy in Authoritarianism Countries

This paper, commencing with the revision of classical concepts on democracy, puts forward that democracy is not only the aim but also a kind of means and method, based on which the paper further analyzes the shaping of democracy, and points out that elite democracy is an inevitable trend and that the role and function that elite democracy plays in the process of democratization is the exhibitio...

Information Technology: Weapon of Authoritarianism or Tool of Democracy?

Strong tendencies exist to apply information technology to support centralist, authoritarian world views. It is argued that alternative architectures can be readily created, which are more attuned to the openness and freedoms which are supposed to be the hallmarks of democratic government. It is questioned whether authoritarianism will be capable of surviving the complexities, dynamism and wide...