Leaving the ECHR wouldn’t be the end of it. When that would fail, then they’d attack the judiciary for falling back on common law. It’s bog standard autocratisation. Nothing more.
October 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Leaving the ECHR wouldn’t be the end of it. When that would fail, then they’d attack the judiciary for falling back on common law. It’s bog standard autocratisation. Nothing more.
“Democracy may be in retreat, but resistance to autocratisation is vibrant and evolving."
Our TWQ special issue on the "Limits of Autocratisation" featured on @globalsouthshub.bsky.social 👇
Our TWQ special issue on the "Limits of Autocratisation" featured on @globalsouthshub.bsky.social 👇
Third World Quarterly's #SpecialIssue explores how political parties and #socialmovements resist autocratisation in #Africa, #Asia, #LatinAmerica, and #SoutheastEurope, with insights from Guest Editors @bilgeyabanci.bsky.social, @karabekir.bsky.social, and @keremoxford.bsky.social 🔽
Limits of Autocratisation: Democratic Resistance and Opposition – a TWQ Special Issue - GLOBAL SOUTHS HUB
While authoritarianism continues to gain ground globally, this Special Issue of Third World Quarterly, titled Limits of autocratisation: actors and institutions of democratic resistance and…
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April 3, 2025 at 12:25 PM
“Democracy may be in retreat, but resistance to autocratisation is vibrant and evolving."
Our TWQ special issue on the "Limits of Autocratisation" featured on @globalsouthshub.bsky.social 👇
Our TWQ special issue on the "Limits of Autocratisation" featured on @globalsouthshub.bsky.social 👇
What can stop full autocratisation now? We know from our research that you need mobilisation across the full spectrum of the socio-political opposition + transnational support on media, civil society and governmental levels. Is there space for such a united front?
March 19, 2025 at 8:03 AM
What can stop full autocratisation now? We know from our research that you need mobilisation across the full spectrum of the socio-political opposition + transnational support on media, civil society and governmental levels. Is there space for such a united front?
Chaotic autocratisation = market uncertainty.
February 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Chaotic autocratisation = market uncertainty.
🚨 Autocratisation is not inevitable! ✋
Our Special Issue with @bilgeyabanci.bsky.social & @keremoxford.bsky.social explores its limits through the actors & institutions of democratic resistance & opposition from an interregional, interdisciplinary perspective: 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/toc/ctwq20/4...
Our Special Issue with @bilgeyabanci.bsky.social & @keremoxford.bsky.social explores its limits through the actors & institutions of democratic resistance & opposition from an interregional, interdisciplinary perspective: 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/toc/ctwq20/4...
Third World Quarterly
Limits of autocratisation: actors and institutions of democratic resistance and opposition. Volume 46, Issue 2 of Third World Quarterly
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March 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
🚨 Autocratisation is not inevitable! ✋
Our Special Issue with @bilgeyabanci.bsky.social & @keremoxford.bsky.social explores its limits through the actors & institutions of democratic resistance & opposition from an interregional, interdisciplinary perspective: 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/toc/ctwq20/4...
Our Special Issue with @bilgeyabanci.bsky.social & @keremoxford.bsky.social explores its limits through the actors & institutions of democratic resistance & opposition from an interregional, interdisciplinary perspective: 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/toc/ctwq20/4...
L’institut V-Dem documente le déclin des normes démocratiques à travers la planète, tous types de régimes confondus. Plusieurs tendances historiques convergent pour favoriser des épisodes d’« autocratisation », dangereux mais plus graduels que durant le siècle passé.
Par Fabien Escalona
Par Fabien Escalona
Le monde est plongé dans une vague autocratique « globale »
L’institut V-Dem documente le déclin des normes démocratiques à travers la planète, tous types de régimes confondus. Plusieurs tendances historiques convergent pour favoriser des épisodes d’« autocratisation », dangereux mais plus graduels que durant le siècle passé.
l.mediapart.fr
April 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM
L’institut V-Dem documente le déclin des normes démocratiques à travers la planète, tous types de régimes confondus. Plusieurs tendances historiques convergent pour favoriser des épisodes d’« autocratisation », dangereux mais plus graduels que durant le siècle passé.
Par Fabien Escalona
Par Fabien Escalona
Suggests that elite cowardice and spinelessness are underrated factors when it comes to autocratisation processes
Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America
October 26, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Suggests that elite cowardice and spinelessness are underrated factors when it comes to autocratisation processes
Anti-democratic propaganda spread by states is often systematically enabled by attacks on speech rights of critics. It is a significant aspect of autocratisation. This podcast discusses the sneaky way free speech claims are used to attack on the credibility of critics, which has a chilling effect.
The "free speech" discussion around disinformation seems to be an intentionally wrong cognitive framework--a cognitive trap.
It's about corruption, not speech.
I discussed this with @jimludes.bsky.social on his Active Measures Newsletter podcast this week.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p5r...
It's about corruption, not speech.
I discussed this with @jimludes.bsky.social on his Active Measures Newsletter podcast this week.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p5r...
Prof Jagolinzer: "Free Speech" is an intentionally wrong cognitive framework for disinformation
YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit
www.youtube.com
May 10, 2026 at 9:23 AM
Anti-democratic propaganda spread by states is often systematically enabled by attacks on speech rights of critics. It is a significant aspect of autocratisation. This podcast discusses the sneaky way free speech claims are used to attack on the credibility of critics, which has a chilling effect.
Yesterday, @snellarthur.bsky.social and I chatted about the third wave of autocratisation, and how competitive authoritarianism has become the most common form of authoritarianism:
21st century autocrats are not your grandfather's 'dictators'. 1/3
21st century autocrats are not your grandfather's 'dictators'. 1/3
It was my great pleasure to speak to @srd.bsky.social about competitive authoritarianism and what it means for our age. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...
Are we living in an age of competitive authoritarianism
Podcast Episode · Behind The Lines with Arthur Snell · 11/11/2025 · 47m
podcasts.apple.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Yesterday, @snellarthur.bsky.social and I chatted about the third wave of autocratisation, and how competitive authoritarianism has become the most common form of authoritarianism:
21st century autocrats are not your grandfather's 'dictators'. 1/3
21st century autocrats are not your grandfather's 'dictators'. 1/3
In Tunisia & Turkey, two examples of autocratisation that I know best, democratic backsliding coincided with—and was presaged by—an alarming opting out of politics by young people.
American democracy is backsliding. Hearing & helping young people opt in is critically important.
American democracy is backsliding. Hearing & helping young people opt in is critically important.
June 25, 2025 at 12:28 AM
In Tunisia & Turkey, two examples of autocratisation that I know best, democratic backsliding coincided with—and was presaged by—an alarming opting out of politics by young people.
American democracy is backsliding. Hearing & helping young people opt in is critically important.
American democracy is backsliding. Hearing & helping young people opt in is critically important.
65.2 🫐
Administrative democratic defence ⚔️
@jmvanlit.bsky.social
uses elite interviews from the Netherlands to argue that administrative democratic defence requires continued awareness and action to prevent #Autocratisation and sustain resilience 🛡️
Administrative democratic defence ⚔️
@jmvanlit.bsky.social
uses elite interviews from the Netherlands to argue that administrative democratic defence requires continued awareness and action to prevent #Autocratisation and sustain resilience 🛡️
Administrative democratic defence: Under what circumstances do civil servants counter autocratisation? | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Administrative democratic defence: Under what circumstances do civil servants counter autocratisation? - Volume 65 Issue 2
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June 1, 2026 at 4:10 PM
65.2 🫐
Administrative democratic defence ⚔️
@jmvanlit.bsky.social
uses elite interviews from the Netherlands to argue that administrative democratic defence requires continued awareness and action to prevent #Autocratisation and sustain resilience 🛡️
Administrative democratic defence ⚔️
@jmvanlit.bsky.social
uses elite interviews from the Netherlands to argue that administrative democratic defence requires continued awareness and action to prevent #Autocratisation and sustain resilience 🛡️
The pace of autocratisation in the US is shocking. There are so many similarities with other backsliding countries in terms of who they attack, how they do it, and the frames they use to justify it. But what worries me the most, alongside the attacks on individuals' civil liberties (!), is the pace
People are correctly comparing the Trump attack on Harvard to Orban’s aggression against CEU, but I recall colleagues/students having (not much, but some) time to see options and consider relocation. The US admin is much faster, more irrational. Truly on steroids.
May 23, 2025 at 10:09 AM
The pace of autocratisation in the US is shocking. There are so many similarities with other backsliding countries in terms of who they attack, how they do it, and the frames they use to justify it. But what worries me the most, alongside the attacks on individuals' civil liberties (!), is the pace
For some time now, TR has been far from a democracy (measured by the usual indicators such as the rule of law, separation of power&free and open civil society). Imamoglu's arrest (together with another 105 individuals) marks, however, a new phase in autocratisation towards regime consolidation.
March 20, 2025 at 7:04 AM
For some time now, TR has been far from a democracy (measured by the usual indicators such as the rule of law, separation of power&free and open civil society). Imamoglu's arrest (together with another 105 individuals) marks, however, a new phase in autocratisation towards regime consolidation.
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Administrative democratic defence ⚔️
@jmvanlit.bsky.social uses elite interviews from the Netherlands to argue that administrative democratic defence requires continued awareness and action to prevent #Autocratisation and sustain resilience 🛡️
Administrative democratic defence ⚔️
@jmvanlit.bsky.social uses elite interviews from the Netherlands to argue that administrative democratic defence requires continued awareness and action to prevent #Autocratisation and sustain resilience 🛡️
Administrative democratic defence: Under what circumstances do civil servants counter autocratisation? | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Administrative democratic defence: Under what circumstances do civil servants counter autocratisation?
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March 7, 2026 at 3:18 PM
🆕
Administrative democratic defence ⚔️
@jmvanlit.bsky.social uses elite interviews from the Netherlands to argue that administrative democratic defence requires continued awareness and action to prevent #Autocratisation and sustain resilience 🛡️
Administrative democratic defence ⚔️
@jmvanlit.bsky.social uses elite interviews from the Netherlands to argue that administrative democratic defence requires continued awareness and action to prevent #Autocratisation and sustain resilience 🛡️
Reminder: Hungary is no longer a democracy but an electoral *autocracy* following the world's most steep autocratisation process of the last 25
years www.v-dem.net/publications...
years www.v-dem.net/publications...
January 22, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Reminder: Hungary is no longer a democracy but an electoral *autocracy* following the world's most steep autocratisation process of the last 25
years www.v-dem.net/publications...
years www.v-dem.net/publications...
Yes, we have a way to go before America’s political economy is reengineered to resemble the cartoonish cronyism of Ben Ali’s Tunisia.
But autocratisation, in every case, is a slippery slide that countries get halfway down before most citizens even realise they’re sitting on it.
But autocratisation, in every case, is a slippery slide that countries get halfway down before most citizens even realise they’re sitting on it.
April 11, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Yes, we have a way to go before America’s political economy is reengineered to resemble the cartoonish cronyism of Ben Ali’s Tunisia.
But autocratisation, in every case, is a slippery slide that countries get halfway down before most citizens even realise they’re sitting on it.
But autocratisation, in every case, is a slippery slide that countries get halfway down before most citizens even realise they’re sitting on it.
Third World Quarterly's #SpecialIssue explores how political parties and #socialmovements resist autocratisation in #Africa, #Asia, #LatinAmerica, and #SoutheastEurope, with insights from Guest Editors @bilgeyabanci.bsky.social, @karabekir.bsky.social, and @keremoxford.bsky.social 🔽
Limits of Autocratisation: Democratic Resistance and Opposition – a TWQ Special Issue - GLOBAL SOUTHS HUB
While authoritarianism continues to gain ground globally, this Special Issue of Third World Quarterly, titled Limits of autocratisation: actors and institutions of democratic resistance and…
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April 3, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Third World Quarterly's #SpecialIssue explores how political parties and #socialmovements resist autocratisation in #Africa, #Asia, #LatinAmerica, and #SoutheastEurope, with insights from Guest Editors @bilgeyabanci.bsky.social, @karabekir.bsky.social, and @keremoxford.bsky.social 🔽
Trump is acting increasing without Congressional approval. This is all part of the rapid autocratisation of the United States, revealed in a new report by V-Dem, writes Noel Turnbull. #USpolitics #V-Dem
Why so many Republicans are bailing out of Congress
A new report reveals the speed of autocratisation in the United States and how Trump is acting increasing without Congressional approval.
pearlsandirritations.com
June 29, 2026 at 1:32 AM
Trump is acting increasing without Congressional approval. This is all part of the rapid autocratisation of the United States, revealed in a new report by V-Dem, writes Noel Turnbull. #USpolitics #V-Dem
Autocratisation at lightening speed in the US.
Sitting US Senator Alex Padilla forcibly wrestled to the ground and arrested by the FBI for attempting to ask a question of DHS secretary Kristin Noem.
June 12, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Autocratisation at lightening speed in the US.
My latest article ‘Democracy Manifest? Ensuring the EU Legislature’s Democratic Legitimacy
in the Face of National-Level Autocratisation’ has just been published online and open access in European Papers: www.europeanpapers.eu/en/system/fi...
in the Face of National-Level Autocratisation’ has just been published online and open access in European Papers: www.europeanpapers.eu/en/system/fi...
www.europeanpapers.eu
August 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
My latest article ‘Democracy Manifest? Ensuring the EU Legislature’s Democratic Legitimacy
in the Face of National-Level Autocratisation’ has just been published online and open access in European Papers: www.europeanpapers.eu/en/system/fi...
in the Face of National-Level Autocratisation’ has just been published online and open access in European Papers: www.europeanpapers.eu/en/system/fi...
Turkey's autocratisation saga is still often analysed within the framework of party politics, with an emphasis on understanding the goals and limitations of the ruling coalition and the opposition parties.
July 3, 2026 at 7:56 AM
Turkey's autocratisation saga is still often analysed within the framework of party politics, with an emphasis on understanding the goals and limitations of the ruling coalition and the opposition parties.
Last mention of my most recent article on how - as a last resort - EU law can be (re-)-interpreted to protect the democratic legitimacy of its legislature in the face of Member State autocratisation.
My latest article ‘Democracy Manifest? Ensuring the EU Legislature’s Democratic Legitimacy
in the Face of National-Level Autocratisation’ has just been published online and open access in European Papers: www.europeanpapers.eu/en/system/fi...
in the Face of National-Level Autocratisation’ has just been published online and open access in European Papers: www.europeanpapers.eu/en/system/fi...
www.europeanpapers.eu
September 8, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Last mention of my most recent article on how - as a last resort - EU law can be (re-)-interpreted to protect the democratic legitimacy of its legislature in the face of Member State autocratisation.
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I've condemned Israel's campaign of ethnic cleansing in Gaza, and I've written extensively about autocratisation, inc. in the US. Safe to say, I have ZERO intention of travelling to the US in the foreseeable future, despite the numerous academic events I had lined up. Just doesn't feel safe at all.
April 15, 2025 at 10:01 AM
I've condemned Israel's campaign of ethnic cleansing in Gaza, and I've written extensively about autocratisation, inc. in the US. Safe to say, I have ZERO intention of travelling to the US in the foreseeable future, despite the numerous academic events I had lined up. Just doesn't feel safe at all.
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Political Patronage and Autocratisation
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