This paper examines the relationship between the militarisation of COVID-19 state responses and autocratisation in eight Asian and Latin American countries. Using a conceptual framework of COVID-19-related military missions and operations, our findings for each country over the first two...

Evidence points to an increasing personalisation of political power by chief executives in recent years. It is often argued that such personalisation contributes to the current trend of autocratisation and the global decline of democracy. Yet our understanding hereof remains fractured, not least...

Meat-based diets are still the norm, and vegans and vegetarians represent only a small minority of the population. A transition, respectively, behavioural change towards a diet with less meat can only occur by adopting a positive attitude towards dietary changes based on reasons and motivations....

This paper aims to answer the question of how and under what circumstances civilian control can be established in newly democratised nations. To do this, I propose a new theoretical argument that conceives of the process of institutionalising civilian control in new democracies as a series of...

Evidence points to an increasing personalisation of political power by chief executives in recent years. It is often argued that such personalisation contributes to the current trend of autocratisation and the global decline of democracy. Yet our understanding hereof remains fractured, not least...

While the emerging democracies of Southeast Asia still are characterised by legitimacy crises or have already collapsed, a higher level of political stability persists in most of the region's autocracies. In most countries of South-East Asia, however, the state's monopoly on the legitimate use...

Während die jungen Demokratien Südostasiens allesamt durch schwere Legitimitätskrisen gekennzeichnet bzw. bereits kollabiert sind, ist das Stabilitätsniveau zumindest einiger Autokratien der Region anhaltend hoch. Gleichwohl ist das staatliche Gewaltmonopol in den meisten Staaten...

In democracies throughout the world, intra-party factions manifest themselves in parties and governments. Formal and informal institutions have, however, proved crucial in managing factionalism. This is especially true in Thailand’s emerging parliamentary democracy where the management of...

Das Studium Generale ist eine Veranstaltungsreihe der Universität Heidelberg, die sich an alle Mitglieder der Universität und die interessierte Öffentlichkeit wendet. Die Veranstaltungen der Vorlesungsreihe stehen unter einem gemeinsamen Thema, das von Wissenschaftlern verschiedener...