Saturday, April 28, 2012

The Kantian Logic of Democratization: A Footnote on Levitsky and Way’s Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War

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(A review of Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way’s Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War , Cambridge University Pre...
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Charles Tilly's Poetry, and the Use of Models in the Social Sciences

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In a 1991 review essay discussing several books by James C. Scott , the late Charles Tilly gets cranky with rationalistic explanations of be...
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Thursday, April 05, 2012

The Limits of Protest in Complex Societies

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(I’ve been invited by the  Society for Philosophy and Culture  here at  VUW  to host a session of their  Symposiumon “Protest” on 5 April ...
Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Crowdsourcing a Democracy Index – 2012 edition

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It’s that time of the year again – time to crowdsource a democracy index. First, a bit of context. Last year, I had the idea of using th...
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Thursday, March 22, 2012

The Irrelevance of Legitimacy - now as a working paper!

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(This paper has now been published. The official version is available here , and an ungated version can be found here ).   Sorry for the r...
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Friday, March 02, 2012

On stability and legitimacy

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Consider the following passages from David Beetham’s The Legitimation of Power (1991): …it is a notable feature of power relations th...
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Thursday, February 23, 2012

Varieties of Political Competition

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(Part 1.5 of a series on the history ofpolitical regimes . This gets a bit technical in the second half, which contains a sort of blurry s...