Empire of Authoritarian Leaders

The End of Liberal Utopia and The Stolen Rebellion

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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The book offers a critical examination of the contemporary crisis of democracy, focusing on the rise of authoritarian leaders, far-right political parties, and right-wing populism. Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, it seeks to provide a novel framework for understanding the transformation of representative democracy in the face of resurgent authoritarianism. It challenges dominant narratives of democratic backsliding by situating the current crisis within the long-term transformation of capitalism, the modern state, and mass society, following the intellectual traces of the Frankfurt School. It introduces new theoretical concepts—such as the plebiscitary transformation of democracy, discard society, algorithmic masses, and political capitalism—to reconceptualize the transformation of political representation, the recent mass mobilization behind the far right, and the broader dynamics of global regime change.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-07-24
Mått:148 x 210 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:190
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783032217608

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Zafer Yılmaz is Associate Professor at Ankara University and a research fellow at Alice Salomon Hochschule in Berlin. He has published widely on populism, authoritarian rule, and the authoritarian restructuring of the Turkish state in both academic journals and collective volumes. Among his books are Yeni Türkiye’nin Ruhu: Hınç, Tahakküm, Muhtaçlaştırma (The Spirit of New Turkey: Resentment, Domination and Destitution), Erdoğan’ın Başkanlık Rejimi: İstisnai Cumhuriyetten Parsellenmiş Devlete (Erdogan’s Presidential Regime: From Exceptional Republic to Parcelled State), and Sağın Kasveti, Otoriter Liderler ve Çalınan İsyan (The Gloom of the Right: Authoritarian Leaders and the Stolen Rebellion, which interrogate the rise of authoritarianism in Turkey and beyond.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The Delirium of Populism.- Chapter 3. The Twilight of Party Politics.- Chapter 4. The Reactionary Society.- Chapter 5. Leader Democracies.- Chapter 6. Conclusion.