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unequivocally suggests that the revolutions have not achieved the goals sought by millions of rebels, as the root causes have not been eliminated, which results in a situation that will sooner or later trigger new explosions. A “new authoritarianism” is rampant in the region, the institutional dominance of intelligence services is substituting modern-state governance, with corruption and nepotism flourishing amid growing social inequality and poor political representation. Trust ...
... new centre of political decision-making with the opportunity to balance the disproportionately empowered office of the president. Parliament also became a full-fledged representational platform open to all political forces.
Institutional Crisis and Authoritarianism as the Price of Effective Governance
Elena Alekseenkova:
The U.S. in Central Asia: between «С5+1» and «Make America Great Again»
Nevertheless, as we have already mentioned, the excessive number of political parties (the main participants ...
Authoritarianism vs. democracy has long been established as part of modern Western discourse, with political transitions supposed to move linearly from one to the other. The problem is that authoritarian regimes proper – rationally organized secular ...
