Add to ORKGDevelopment practitioners navigate their way through the volatile and frequently violent contexts of the fragile states where they work. Often, they contend with obstructive and unaccountable authoritarian regimes. There is a good prima facie case that autocracy leads to fragility, and that fragility in turn loops back to autocracy. But the more one probes, the more tenuous and multi‑stranded the relationships between them appear.Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) 202
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The particular concern of this paper is how autocratic, non-accountable governance connects to other...
In the last three decades, the categories of fragile and failed states have gained significant impor...
The article explores scientific discourse on the phenomenon of state fragility and reviews contempor...
Fragile states pose major development and security challenges. Considerable international resources ...
Autocratic regimes are quite often short-lived kleptocracies formed and maintained through force and...
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This chapter is derived from our ongoing research on fragile states funded by the Canadian Internati...
"How can authoritarianism in an age of democratization survive? What are the critical junctures when...
This thesis examines how the internal dynamics of authoritarian regimes influence the outcome of mas...
In the past two decades, a growing consensus has emerged that a differentiated approach to cooperati...
"How can authoritarianism in an age of democratization survive? What are the critical junctures when...
In the post-9/11 period a common belief emerged that fragile states are launching pads for unprecede...
It is puzzling why autocracies, which typically are not renowned for their human rights record or th...
This dissertation addresses the question “how disasters change state-society relations under authori...
The particular concern of this paper is how autocratic, non-accountable governance connects to other...
In the last three decades, the categories of fragile and failed states have gained significant impor...
The article explores scientific discourse on the phenomenon of state fragility and reviews contempor...
Fragile states pose major development and security challenges. Considerable international resources ...
Autocratic regimes are quite often short-lived kleptocracies formed and maintained through force and...
Estimates suggest that by 2030, about half of the world’s poor will live in contexts of fragility, c...
Does democracy promote political instability? Research by pre-eminent scholars demonstrate how nasce...
This chapter is derived from our ongoing research on fragile states funded by the Canadian Internati...
"How can authoritarianism in an age of democratization survive? What are the critical junctures when...
This thesis examines how the internal dynamics of authoritarian regimes influence the outcome of mas...
In the past two decades, a growing consensus has emerged that a differentiated approach to cooperati...
"How can authoritarianism in an age of democratization survive? What are the critical junctures when...
In the post-9/11 period a common belief emerged that fragile states are launching pads for unprecede...
It is puzzling why autocracies, which typically are not renowned for their human rights record or th...
This dissertation addresses the question “how disasters change state-society relations under authori...