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Inmitten der Ermüdung, in die das repräsentative Demokratiemodell gekommen ist, erscheint das Internet wie ein Heilmittel. Den digitalen Medien wird zugeschrieben, Transparenz, Partizipation, Responsivität und Repräsentivität zu verbessern und so Repräsentation zu ergänzen oder zu modernisieren.Dieser Band geht der Frage nach, welche Wirkung die neuen Formen vernetzter Kommunikation auf die demokratischen Prozesse haben: Kann das Internet Defizite oder Fehlentwicklungen heutiger Demokratien beheben und so Demokratie bereichern? Oder ergeben sich aus der Funktionslogik des Internets Stressfaktoren, da demokratische Strukturen geschwächt und demokratische Prozesseunterminiert werden?

"Autocracies not only resist the global spread of democracy but are sources of autocratic influence and pressure. This book presents a conceptual model to understand, assess, and explain the promotion and diffusion of authoritarian elements. Employing a cross-regional approach, leading experts empirically test the concept of Authoritarian Gravity Centers (AGC) defined as "regimes that constitute a force of attraction and contagion for countries in geopolitical proximity". With an analysis extending across Latin America, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Asia, these AGCs are shown to be effective as active promoter (push) or as neutral source of attraction (pull). The authors contend that the influence of exogenous factors, along with international and regional contexts for the transformation of regime types, are vital to understand and analyze the transmission of autocratic institutional settings, ideas, norms, procedures and practices, thus explaining the regional clustering of autocracies. It is the regional context in which external actors can influence authoritarian processes most effectively. Authoritarian Gravity Centers is a vibrant and comprehensive contribution to the growing field of autocratization, which will be of great interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of Comparative Area Studies, Illiberalism, International Politics and studies of democracy"--

Der Arabische Frühling, aber auch Konflikte in Osteuropa (siehe Georgien, Ukraine) haben die Relevanz externer Faktoren von Demokratisierungen erneut in den Vordergrund gerückt. Viele Fragen und Konzepte, die in der ersten Auflage dieses Bandes behandelt wurden, sind noch immer aktuell und bedürfen weiterer Erforschung. Die Beiträge befassen sich mit Aspekten, die unvermindert Relevanz besitzen: Diffusion demokratischer Werte - Demokratie durch Krieg - Wirksamkeit politischer Konditionalität - Demokratieeffekte der Europäischen Union - Demokratieförderung mittels Zivilgesellschaft, P.

Digitalization is not only a new research subject for political science, but a transformative force for the discipline in terms of teaching and learning as well as research methods and publishing. This volume provides the first account of the influence of digitalization on the discipline of political science including contributions from 20 different countries. It presents a regional stocktaking of the challenges and opportunities of digitalization in most world regions. The digital transformation is an example of technological change that will have massive implications for politics and society. It involves a sweeping set of changes that many have likened to the Industrial Revolution. The digital revolution has generated extraordinary opportunities for political scientists, but it also raises serious questions about politics, issues like privacy, regulatory oversight, international conflicts and democracy. Many of these problems are old, but digitalization has magnified their difficulties and importance. The ambivalence of digitalization not only includes multiple aspects for political processes, for communication and for interaction in the political realm, but likewise for our discipline. Digitalization is both a research subject as well as a transformative force for our discipline in terms of teaching and learning, research methods, data collection and management, but also influencing publishing and consultancy.

Digitalization is not only a new research subject for political science, but a transformative force for the discipline in terms of teaching and learning as well as research methods and publishing. This volume provides the first account of the influence of digitalization on the discipline of political science including contributions from 20 different countries. It presents a regional stocktaking of the challenges and opportunities of digitalization in most world regions.

The recent decades more than anything else have revealed the ambivalence not only of the articulated expectations about the digital public sphere but also of the 'real' development itself. This thematic issue of Media and Communication highlights some of the criticalities and specificities of the evolution of the public sphere during this period where digital communication ecosystems are becoming increasingly central. The different articles offer a polyphonic perspective and thus contribute significantly to the debate on the transformations of the public sphere, which—in the time of the Covid-19 pandemic—dramatically affect the very essence of our democracy.