Democratic backsliding Samenvattingen, Aantekeningen en Examens

GVPT 282 Midterm Latest 2023 Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) The AIIB is a financial institution focused on multilateral development in the Asia-Pacific region. This bank, with its 17-founding member and other joiners, competes with the IFIs established under the Bretton Woods System, mainly the World Bank and IMF. As a result, it threatens U.S.'s power to advance its foreign policy through conditionality for loans. Instead, IFIs may not compete, and this competition allows developin...

Dictator's Dilemma - Answer An authoritarian ruler's repression creates fear, which then breeds uncertainty about how much support the ruler has; in response, the ruler spends more resources than is rational to co-opt the opposition supreme leader - Answer Individual who wields executive power with few formal limits in an authoritarian regime; in the Islamic Republic of Iran, the formal title of the top ruling cleric regime change - Answer The process through which one regime is transfor...

This is a full summary of all the lectures of the democratisation course. It does not include any of the readings, but it does include what is told about the readings in the lectures with the name of the author so you can look up the corresponding readings.

These documents include lecture notes for the course Democracies, Autocracies & Transitions in the second year studies of Political Science at the UvA. It includes theoretical and empirical contributions to the discussion on democracies, autocracies and what drives democratic backsliding or democratisation.

Uitgebreide samenvatting van het artikel "On Democratic Backsliding" van Nancy Bermeo uit 2016. Samenvatting is volledig in het Nederlands en bevat alle belangrijke punten die Bermeo maakt.