Judicial Systems and Authoritarian Transitions

Judicial Empowerment in Authoritarian Regimes

A Duration Analysis of Democratic Transitions and Authoritarian Backslides

Recent theories of political development have emphasized redistributive demands as the main drivers of democratic transitions and consolidation. The authors employ Cox duration models to evaluate a number of economic, institutionalist, and sociological theories of regime transition, using global data from 1970 to 1999. This study suggests that demands for redistribution are insufficient explana...

Comparative American Judicial Systems

Does Judicial Independence Matter? a Study of the Determinants of Administrative Litigation in an Authoritarian Regime

Lawsuits against the government form a part of the regular functioning of legal systems in democratic countries, and responding to such lawsuits constitutes an unavoidable part of governance. However, in the context of authoritarian regimes, administrative litigation has been viewed as a distinctively valuable institution for promoting the rule of law and individual rights. Moreover, the judici...

Authoritarian attitudes and personality maladjustment.

S[NCE the publication of The Authoritarian Personality (2), the relationship of ethnic prejudice and authoritarian attitudes to personality and psychopathology has been the subject of anumber of studies. Several scales have been used as measures of authoritarian attitudes, and the personality factors underlying authoritarianism have been investigated with an even greater variety of techniques. ...