Autocratization in post-Cold War Political Regimes

Andrea Cassani is Research Fellow at the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy. His work has been published in journals such as International Political Science Review, Italian Political Science Review, Africa Spectrum, European Journal of Political Research, Contemporary Politics, and European Political Science.Luca Tomini is Chercheur Qualifié FNRS (Research Associate Professor) at the Centre d’Etude de la Vie Politique of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium. His work has been published in journals such as European Journal of Political Research, Europe-Asia Studies, Comparative European Politics, Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe. He is the author of the book When Democracies Collapse (2017).

“Autocratization in Post‐Cold War Political Regimes provides significant contributions to the literature on comparative political regime studies and the debate on the state of democracy. Hopefully, the book will pave the way for future research on patterns of regime transition using an authoritarian perspective.” (Angelo Vito Panaro, Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics & Society,JSPPS, Vol. 5 (2), 2019)

• 1 Introduction: From Democratization to Autocratization.- 2 What Autocratization is.- 3 Trends of post-Cold War Autocratization.- 4 Modes of post-Cold War Autocratization.- 5 Cases of post-Cold War Autocratization.- 6 Conclusion: Patterns of post-Cold War Autocratization.