Abstract
In the 2000s the Belarusian regime appeared adept at developing appropriate methods for countering external democratisation efforts and was even a model for other post-Soviet autocracies. To cope with ever-changing internal and external environments, the regime honed the methods of adaptive authoritarianism. However, this article shows that the Belarusian system is fragile and failing by using a framework that analyses various aspects of adaptive authoritarianism, including performance legitimacy, personalist rule, neopatrimonialism, managed pluralism and coercive capacity.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1-27 |
| Number of pages | 27 |
| Journal | Europe-Asia Studies |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Early online date | 16 Aug 2022 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 31 Jan 2023 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Part of this research was conducted when the author was a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Cambridge funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Post-Doctoral Fellowship.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Geography, Planning and Development
- History
- Sociology and Political Science
- Economics and Econometrics
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