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