Democracy and Autocracy: Theories and Empirical Findings
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This course is part of the IPSAMOOC project, a joint venture Federica Weblearning - IPSA, the International Political Science Association
Democracy and Autocracy are core concepts of Political Science but they are also contested concepts. It is important, therefore, to understand the basic theories underpinning these two types of regime.
The last few decades have seen regime change become one of the main topics in democracy studies. The aim of this course is to analyze why and how democratic regimes emerge from autocratic regimes,as well as why and how democratic regression or democratic breakdown takes place.
As evidenced by events of the last few decades, we also need to subdivide these root concepts into subtypes that reflect deficient forms of democracy or moderate forms of autocracy.
From 1990 onwards, in particular, we can see that democratization and autocratization have taken diverse pathways, and we have witnessed progress and regression in the worldwide development of democracy; often with a considerable variety of democratic or autocratic subtypes. This course explores these developments.
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Marianne Kneuer
Marianne Kneuer is Professor for Political Science and currently holds the position of Director of the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Hildesheim, Germany. From 1993 until 1999 she was member in the planning staff of the Federal President of Germany, Roman Herzog. Before that she worked as a political journalist (1989-1993). Since 2007 she is member of the Board of the German Society of Political Science; from 2011 until 2013 as president. She is edits several books series and is co-editor of the Journal of Comparative Politics (Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft). Her primary field is comparative politics, especially democratization and democracy and autocracy studies, and secondarily fields of international relations: promotion of democracy and European Politics. Her geographical focus is Central Eastern and Southern Europe with extending interests to Latin America and Eastern Europe.
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Marianne Kneuer es profesora de Ciencias Políticas y actualmente ocupa la posición de Directora del Instituto de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de Hildesheim, Alemania. Desde 1993 hasta 1999 formaba parte del equipo de planificación del presidente federal de Alemania, Roman Herzog. Antes, había trabajado como periodista política (1989-1993). Desde 2007 es miembro de la Junta de la Sociedad alemana de Ciencias Políticas; desde 2011 hasta 2013 como presidenta. Ha editado diversas series de libros y es coeditora del Periódico de Política Comparativa (Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft). Su principal campo es la política comparativa, especialmente la democratización y los estudios sobre democracia y autocracia, y sus campos secundarios las relaciones internacionales: promoción de la democracia y política europea. Su atención geográfica es el Centro, Este y Sur de Europa, con intereses también en América Latina y Europa del Este.
