Drivers of Authoritarianism: Paths and Developments at the Beginning of the 21st Century (Elgar Studies in Law and Politics)

Front Matter
Copyright
Contents
Contributors
Preface
PART I On the theory and empiricism of authoritarianism
1. Authoritarian developments as a threat to democracy and pluralism
PART II Threats to democracies and authoritarian system competition
2. Authoritarian forms of rule in the twenty-first century
3. Autocratization as a global process? Authoritarianism and democracy in an international context
4. Self-assertion without self-determination
5. The authoritarian direction of radicalised conservatism
PART III Capitalist economies and social crises
6. Loss of control, authoritarianism and exterminism in the Great Transformation
7. Crises and loss of control - opportunity structures for the drivers of authoritarian social developments
8. Of ‘bulwarks’ and ‘sacred borders’. Authoritarian refugee policies in Europe
PART IV Authoritarian mentalities and identity politics
9. Dynamics of authoritarianism: an essay
10. Authoritarian cultural identities: understanding the new right in the tradition of Oswald Spengler
11. Left-wing identity politics as a driver of authoritarian developments
PART V New role assignments, affective narratives, and media concepts of politics
12. Women, gender and right-wing authoritarian populism
13. Promises of sovereignty in authoritarian populism: a feminist critique
14. Media entertainment and right-wing authoritarian political ideas, an example: the storming of the Capitol
PART VI Repressive instruments and authoritarian movements and the state
15. Leviathan with a beaked mask
16. Pegasus: the unbounded surveillance industry in the service of the authoritarian
17. Under what conditions do authoritarian social movements develop in Western societies?
Index