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...

This study investigated the relationship between authoritarian leadership and employees' deviant workplace behaviors (DWB), as well as the mediating effects of psychological contract violation and organizational cynicism. A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 391 manufacturing workers in a northern city of China. Structural equation modeling was performed to test the theory-driven models...

Psychology in The Netherlands, The Nijmegen Papers, edited by M. Brouwer, J. van Ginneken, A. Hagendoorn, and .l-D Meloen. Amsterdam: Mola Russa. · Meloen, J;,O., L. Hagendoorn, Q. Raaijmakers, and L. Visser, L 1988. Authorlt~rlanlsm and the Revival of Political Racism: Rea.ss.essments In The Netherlands of the Reliability and Validity of the Concept of Authoritarianism by Adorno et al." Politi...

In the past few years, a body of ideas based on political economy theory has been built up by North and Weingast, Olson, Przeworski, and Acemoglu and Robinson. One theme that emerges from this literature concerns the transition to democracy: why would dominant elites give up oligarchic power? This article addresses this question by considering a formal model of an authoritarian regime, and then...

Different Threats, Different Militaries: Explaining Organizational Practices in Authoritarian Armies Caitlin Talmadge To cite this article: Caitlin Talmadge (2016) Different Threats, Different Militaries: Explaining Organizational Practices in Authoritarian Armies, Security Studies, 25:1, 111-141, DOI: 10.1080/09636412.2016.1134192 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09636412.201...

Researchers have reported that parental authority has linked to levels of child’s self-esteem. Most previous research has shown that authoritative parenting is more beneficial to adolescent self-esteem than authoritarian parenting (Furnham & Cheng, 2000). The effects of authoritarian parenting, however, have yielded contradictory results in Asian cultures. Therefore, the current study aimed to ...

Scholarship on democratization has made significant progress in theorizing the trajectories of former authoritarian elites, with considerable attention given to successor parties particular. However, literature largely failed contend cases which cohort officials scatters widely across political system. We identify these patterns dispersion as diasporas and investigate their potential causes con...

Why would an authoritarian regime allow citizens to complain publicly if, as is often presumed, exchange of information among citizens invites social instability? This paper studies how an authoritarian regime allows citizens to publicly express preferences to strengthen its rule. We argue that public communication has two functions. First, it disorganizes the citizens or strengthens their disa...

Some people will never live comfortably in a modern liberal democracy. How they got to be that way, what consequences it has for the rest of us, and the conditions under which we will feel those effects are the subjects of this book. This work focuses on a particular type of person: one who cannot treat with natural ease or generosity those who are not his own kindred or kind, who is inclined t...