Authoritarian Contagion: The Global Threat to Democracy

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This innovative book uses examples from around the world to examine the spread of draconian and nationalistic forms of government - ‘authoritarian protectionism’ - which provides new insight into the changing nature of the authoritarian threat to democracy and how it might be overcome. Front Cover Epigraph Authoritarian Cobtagion: The Global Threat to Democracy Copyright information Dedication Table of contents Acknowledgments One On the March Democracy versus authoritarianism: some preliminary remarks The march of authoritarianism is uneven but global in reach Authoritarian protectionism: the scope of the book Two Them and Us From authoritarian individualism to authoritarian protectionism? Them and us: democracy against liberty, or liberty against democracy? The hegemony of ‘them and us’: the ideological logics of authoritarian protectionism Authoritarian protectionism in Hungary and Poland: the politics of blood and soil nationalism ‘We the people’: incentives and practices of the new authoritarianism in Europe Three ‘I Will Protect You’ The enduring power of national belonging From ‘I won’t protect you’ to ‘I will protect you’? Opponents of democracy can always declare themselves the people’s champions Four Pandemic Politics The 21st-century long crisis: the ecological conditions driving pandemic politics COVID-19 has had vastly different impacts on the world’s populations The world is not flat: COVID-19 forces us to ask questions about ‘the best life’ Government via chaos? Different forms of authoritarian protectionism in the COVID-19 crisis The crux of the opportunity for authoritarianism Five Sino-America Trump and Xi: the distorted mirror image ‘The Chinese Dream’: on the Xi model of authoritarian protectionism Trump versus Xi: competing models of the new authoritarianism The economics of the authoritarian calculation in the United States and the West The new radical right Republicanism: the Reaganite alliance with Trump Varieties of authoritarian protectionism Six Authoritarian Futures? A radical politics of survival towards a new democratic era References Index Back Cover