Authoritarian Gravity Centers : A Cross-Regional Study of Authoritarian Promotion and Diffusion

Part I: Concept 1. Autocratization and its Pull and Push Factors - A Challenge for Comparative Research Marianne Kneuer and Thomas Demmelhuber 2. Conceptualizing Authoritarian Gravity Centers: Sources and Addressees, Mechanisms and Motives of Authoritarian Pressure and Attraction Marianne Kneuer and Thomas Demmelhuber PartII: Empirical Studies on Authoritarian Gravity Centers 3. Kingdom of Gravity: Autocratic Promotion and Diffusion in Saudi Arabia Tobias Zumbragel 4. Democratic Erosion and Autocratization in Latin America: The Role of Venezuela as an Authoritarian Gravity Center Marianne Kneuer 5. Kazakhstan: A Possible Future Authoritarian Gravity Centre? Adele del Sordi and Alexander Libman Part III: The International Dimension of Authoritarianism Revisited 6. Russia's Effects on a Consolidated Democracy: The Erosion of Democracy in Hungary and the Putin Model Thomas Ambrosio 7. Iran and its Neighbors: Military Assistance as Support for Authoritarianism Rachel Vanderhill 8. Networking with Chinese Characteristics: China's Party-to-Party Relations in Asia Julia Bader and Christine Hackenesch 9. Spreading Cyber-Autocracy? The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the Diffusion of Norms of Internet Sovereignty Sebastian Harnisch Part IV: Authoritarian Gravity Centers in Cross-Regional Comparison 10. Authoritarian Gravity Centres in Cross-Regional Comparison: Future Studies and the International Dimensions of Authoritarianism Thomas Demmelhuber, Marianne Kneuer, and Tobias Zumbragel