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The New Competitive Authoritarianism

Steven Levitsky; Lucan Way · Journal of Democracy 31(1), 51–65 · 2020

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Article
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Steven Levitsky; Lucan Way
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DOI 10.1353/jod.2020.0004

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TheoryLührmann and Lindberg (2019) argue that a third wave of autocratization began in the mid-1990s and differs from earlier waves in that it is led mostly by legally elected incumbents who gradually undermine democratic institutions, rather than by coups.