Popular protest in authoritarian regimes: evidence from communist and post-communist states
Abstract
The paper shows that sustained popular protest is a recurrent feature in many authoritarian regimes and that a regime type strongly shapes its characteristics. Popular protest often leads to important changes in the personal composition and policies of elites, which considerably affect the structure and operation of authoritarian regimes, and at times produce regime change. Evidence is provided from authoritarianism in Poland and Yugoslavia, in which sustained protests contributed to the fall of communism, and from competitive authoritarian regimes in post-communist Serbia and Ukraine, which were repeatedly undermined by protest waves and brought to an end by pressure from below'.
Keywords:
popular protest / authoritarianism / regime change / Yugoslavia / Poland / Serbia / UkraineSource:
Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 2014, 14, 2, 139-157Publisher:
- Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
Funding / projects:
- Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law in the Process of Nation-State Building - The Case of Serbia (RS-47026)
DOI: 10.1080/14683857.2014.901725
ISSN: 1468-3857
WoS: 000335213300001
Scopus: 2-s2.0-84899748963
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FPNTY - JOUR AU - Vladisavljević, Nebojša PY - 2014 UR - http://rfpn.fpn.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/452 AB - The paper shows that sustained popular protest is a recurrent feature in many authoritarian regimes and that a regime type strongly shapes its characteristics. Popular protest often leads to important changes in the personal composition and policies of elites, which considerably affect the structure and operation of authoritarian regimes, and at times produce regime change. Evidence is provided from authoritarianism in Poland and Yugoslavia, in which sustained protests contributed to the fall of communism, and from competitive authoritarian regimes in post-communist Serbia and Ukraine, which were repeatedly undermined by protest waves and brought to an end by pressure from below'. PB - Routledge Taylor & Francis Group T2 - Southeast European and Black Sea Studies T1 - Popular protest in authoritarian regimes: evidence from communist and post-communist states EP - 157 IS - 2 SP - 139 VL - 14 DO - 10.1080/14683857.2014.901725 ER -
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Vladisavljević, N.. (2014). Popular protest in authoritarian regimes: evidence from communist and post-communist states. in Southeast European and Black Sea Studies Routledge Taylor & Francis Group., 14(2), 139-157. https://doi.org/10.1080/14683857.2014.901725
Vladisavljević N. Popular protest in authoritarian regimes: evidence from communist and post-communist states. in Southeast European and Black Sea Studies. 2014;14(2):139-157. doi:10.1080/14683857.2014.901725 .
Vladisavljević, Nebojša, "Popular protest in authoritarian regimes: evidence from communist and post-communist states" in Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 14, no. 2 (2014):139-157, https://doi.org/10.1080/14683857.2014.901725 . .