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From Constitutional Identity to the Identity of the Constitution 从宪法认同到宪法认同

IF 0.9 4区社会学

Communist and Post-Communist Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1525/J.POSTCOMSTUD.2021.54.1-2.176

A. Zoteeva, M. Kragh

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引用次数: 1

The Democratic Claims of Communist Regime Leaders 共产党政权领导人的民主诉求

IF 0.9 4区社会学

Communist and Post-Communist Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1525/J.POSTCOMSTUD.2021.54.1-2.45

J. Dominguez

引用次数: 1

The Modern Regency 现代摄政

IF 0.9 4区社会学

Communist and Post-Communist Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1525/J.POSTCOMSTUD.2021.54.1-2.24

Jiangnan Zhu, N. Mukhin

{"title":"The Modern Regency","authors":"Jiangnan Zhu, N. Mukhin","doi":"10.1525/J.POSTCOMSTUD.2021.54.1-2.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/J.POSTCOMSTUD.2021.54.1-2.24","url":null,"abstract":"Extant literature has shown the importance of routinized leadership succession for authoritarian resilience. However, the factors leading to orderly power transitions in autocracies are unclear. This article argues that an orderly succession requires relatively peaceful exit of the incumbent. Through a comparison of the power transition trajectories of the post-Stalin USSR and China in the Age of Deng Xiaoping, this article proposes three conditions that facilitate the voluntary retirement of dictators, including their strong political will to institutionalize successions, adequate capacity to initiate the plan, and reliable retirement packages. Meeting all three conditions, leadership succession in China has resulted in the emergence of the “modern regency” in which the elder leaders can retire relatively voluntarily and continuously influence the politics of a regime after their retirement, especially by proactively supervising future leadership successions. In contrast, without meeting the initial requirements for a dictator’s exit, the case of leadership succession in the USSR is characterized as parallel succession, which includes neither a credible plan on routinization of elite politics nor simultaneous coexistence of the elder leaders and the younger cohort as in the case of China. Moreover, during similar regime crises in the late 1980s, the arrangement of the modern regency helped prolong the authoritarian regime in China, while the USSR collapsed without this safeguard.","PeriodicalId":51623,"journal":{"name":"Communist and Post-Communist Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44092974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 3

Orthodox Conservatism and the Refugee Crisis in Bulgaria and Moldova 东正教保守主义与保加利亚和摩尔多瓦的难民危机

IF 0.9 4区社会学

Communist and Post-Communist Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1525/J.POSTCOMSTUD.2021.54.1-2.83

Lucian N. Leustean

引用次数: 3

Neoliberalization and Politics of Shaming 新自由主义化与羞辱政治

IF 0.9 4区社会学

Communist and Post-Communist Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1525/J.POSTCOMSTUD.2021.54.1-2.102

Iveta Ķešāne

引用次数: 1

Anti-Communism as Ideology 作为意识形态的反共主义

IF 0.9 4区社会学

Communist and Post-Communist Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1525/J.POSTCOMSTUD.2021.54.1-2.1

Filip Ilkowski

引用次数: 4

Countering the “Sweep Effect” 对抗“扫频效应”

IF 0.9 4区社会学

Communist and Post-Communist Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1525/J.POSTCOMSTUD.2021.54.1-2.66

G. Golosov, M. Turchenko

引用次数: 1

Generational and Geographic Effects on Collective Memory of the USSR 代际和地理对苏联集体记忆的影响

IF 0.9 4区社会学

Communist and Post-Communist Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1525/J.POSTCOMSTUD.2021.54.1-2.156

R. Mohr, K. Brown

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引用次数: 2

Europe in Georgia’s Identity Discourse 格鲁吉亚身份话语中的欧洲

IF 0.9 4区社会学

Communist and Post-Communist Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1525/J.POSTCOMSTUD.2021.54.1-2.128

Salome Minesashvili

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引用次数: 7

Czechoslovakia’s Discreet Behavioral Revolution in the 1960s 20世纪60年代捷克斯洛伐克的谨慎行为革命

IF 0.9 4区社会学

Communist and Post-Communist Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1525/J.POSTCOMSTUD.2021.54.1-2.196

M. Štefek

引用次数: 0