Challenge of Semi-Authoritarianism

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Challenge of Semi-Authoritarianism

1 Oct 1999

Several factors explain why a growing number of regimes are adopting outwardly more democratic political systems: the loss of appeal of socialist systems during the 1990s, the creation of newly independent states, and the corresponding need felt by an increasing number of governments to legitimize themselves in the eyes of their citizens and of the international community.

Authors

Martha Brill Olcott, Marina Ottaway

Published in
United States of America