In the debate on authoritarian resilience, the importance of persuasion to regime legitimacy has been widely …) model of legitimacy, we contend that the ruling elites in authoritarian regimes propagate official frames in a continuous … in recent years reemphasized persuasion as a means of reproducing legitimacy. We then apply our theory in an analysis of …

, the paper analyzes the substantial role India came to play in the peace and democratization process in Nepal in the years …

era to instigate democratization globally. However, despite long-term external pressure through sanctions imposed by the … enjoy strong claims to legitimacy and have only limited linkages to the sanction sender. …

, did not contribute to democratization nor to the stabilization of volatile political, military and economic structures … based on dubious concepts. Certainly, the impact of drug trafficking could endanger democratization and state-building if …

The article deals with the social mechanism that connects modernization with democratization. Starting from a … differentiation theoretical point of view, the paper argues that the major impetus for democratization is rather given by “functional … short overview over the latest developments in the debate on modernization and democratization. In the second step, the …