Patterns of competitive authoritarianism in the Western Balkans

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Written by Florian Bieber 11 May 2018

"The countries of the Western Balkans during the 1990s were dominated by competitive authoritarian regimes that combined multi-party elections with nationalist rhetoric and the privatisation of the state to affiliated business interests… This article will argue that the current competitive authoritarian systems … are structurally different from those of the 1990s" (Bieber 2018).

Publisher: East European Politics

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Categories: Paper, Authoritarianism, Liberal Democracy