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Digital authoritarianism and regime change

Internet
Comparative Perspective
Big Data
PRA165
Lisa Garbe
WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Seraphine F. Maerz
University of Melbourne
Ahmed Maati
Technische Universität München – TUM School of Governance

Building: B - Novotného lávka, Floor: 3, Room: 315

Monday 10:45 - 12:30 CEST (04/09/2023)

Abstract

This Panel welcomes contributions which analyze the ways in which strategies of digital authoritarianism affect authoritarian survival. For example, how do these strategies relate to the persistence of particular types of authoritarian regimes and authoritarianism in general and how do they affect the transformation of political regimes? Are some strategies less effective than others and might they even backfire? We further welcome contributions on the mechanisms by which digital strategies foster authoritarian survival (or breakdown. For example, can official disinformation campaigns, such as those in Bolsonaro’s Brazil, propel (offline) autocratization? This Panel invites Papers offering quantitative analyses as well as qualitative case studies which help assess the effects of digital authoritarianism.

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