Crisis Politics in Authoritarian Regimes: How Crisis Catalyse Changes under the State-Society Interactive Framework

Characteristics of a crisis in an Authoritarian Regime

Social catalytic effect

Accelerates reforms and changes

Need of a proactive civil society

Interaction between State and Society

Very limited democratic actions available

Defining crisis: "Beyond something disastrous"

Abnormal public situation

A situation which generates extreme social pressures

Demands immediate response and attention by the government

Closed desition taking by the government

Crisis management in the absence of democracy: A new perspective?

Authoritarian regimes in Asia and the Middle East

Osbtacles

Lack of an effective political opposition

State-censored mass media

No mayor worries about human rights

Revisiting the models: Two dimensional approches in crisis management

Top-Down managerial approach

Top-Down political approach

Bureaucratic-Elite exit

Management by political leaders

The State-Society interactive framework

Scales

Crisis

Governance crisis

Government change

Catalysts

Crisis-weakening force

Crisis strengthening force

Effective management by the government

Crisis put under control

Favourable mass media

Ineffective management by the government

Organized oposition

Negative mass media coverage

Assessing the forces: feasible methods of analysis

Newspaper discourse analysis

Blame and blame response

Hugo Ivan Lopez Rojas. November 13th, 2018. Map 13

Bibliography: Hin.yeung Chan, Crisis Politics in Authoritarian regimes, Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Volume 21 Number 4 December 2013