179 The Long-Term Consequences of Authoritarianism: New Perspectives and Findings

Sunday, March 16, 2014: 9:00 AM-10:45 AM
Hampton (Omni Shoreham)
Authoritarian regimes leave long-lasting legacies in the politics and society of new democracies. However, the way in which a new democracy is established can also have important consequences, interacting with legacies of the authoritarian regime in different ways. The papers in this panel contribute to the growing research on the comparative analysis of legacies of authoritarianism in post-authoritarian democracies by addressing the way in which such interaction has taken place in important historical cases and for important phenomena ranging from the politics of memory to the spread of pro-democratic attitudes.
Organizer:
Giovanni Capoccia
Chair:
Stephen Hanson
Discussants:
Sheri Berman and Stephen Hanson
Lustration and Political Attitudes: Evidence from Post-War Germany
Giovanni Capoccia, University of Oxford; Grigore Pop-Eleches, Princeton University
Twenty Years After: The Politics of Memory in Postcommunist Democracies
Michael Bernhard, University of Florida; Jan Kubik, Rutgers University
The mixed legacies of violence in new democracies
Jeffrey Kopstein, University of Toronto
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