According to survey results, almost all over the world – even in most authoritarian states – the support for democracy is nowadays relatively high. However, skeptical opinions exist about the substantial foundations of these attitudes. While a lot of studies about the MENA-region deal with determinants of the consistency of authoritarian regimes, only a few studies have been conducted on the de...

This article develops and tests a reformation of Baumrind's typology of authoritarian, permissive, and authoritative parenting styles in the context of adolescent school performance. Using a large and diverse sample of San Francisco Bay Area high school students (N = 7,836), we found that both authoritarian and permissive parenting styles were negatively associated with grades, and authoritativ...

While constitutions regulate political authority within a state, there is much we do not know about the interaction between political conditions and constitutional texts. Much of the literature relies upon hand-coded databases of constitutional texts. However, this approach raises both methodological and theoretical concerns. Advances in natural language processing, particularly latent text ana...

Neoliberalism and authoritarianism are intimately connected, as is demonstrated by the existence of a growing body literature on ‘authoritarian neoliberalism’. This article provides taxonomy authoritarian neoliberalism claims that it appears in three varieties – technocracy, populist nationalism, traditional authoritarianism. Also, proposes both an overview analysis states case studies. States ...

While the salience of social media platforms on modern interactive communication between diverse actors has been demonstrated, less academic attention paid to comparisons framed topics and user interactions across platforms, such as Twitter Weibo. This article suggests text mining natural language processing tools for cross-platform comparative studies, based Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) n...

Assigning geographical coordinates to shared content has become a popular activity on the Web, but nevertheless there are still huge amounts of media data without any geographical tags. Our approach enables these media data to be geotagged with the help of recently tagged media and knowledge-based collaborative systems. It includes three different methods–querying collaborative systems, documen...

This contribution explores the importance of independent organizations in authoritarian regimes. While some authoritarian governments delegate policy tasks to (relatively) autonomous agencies simply in order to improve their domestic or international image as modern political leaders or to build up democratic facades to conceal the actual nature of their regime, other political leaders do so in...

What are the most important sources of institutional variation among authoritarian regimes, and how do such institutions influence these dictatorships’ propensity to initiate military disputes? This article argues that most existing studies in both comparative politics and international relations employ a flawed conceptualization of authoritarian institutions. Excessive focus on the personaliza...

Heat exchangers are one of the most important devices of mechanical systems in modernsociety. Most industrial processes involve the transfer of heat and more often they requirethe heat transfer process to be controlled. A heat exchanger is the heat exchanged betweentwo media, one being cold and the other being hot. There are different types of heatexchanger, but the type which is widely used in...