Research Project: The Dynamics of Hybrid Regimes: The Changing Prospects for Democracy and International Democracy Assistance
Project leader
Joakim Ekman, Statsvetenskap Södertörns högskola
Project Members
Thomas Sedelius Jonas Linde, Institutt for sammenliknende politik Bergens universitet
Project Period
-
Project Status
Completed
Description
The project contributes to the literature on democratisation and semi-democratic regimes by constructing a general
theoretical/analytical model of ‘hybrid regimes’. The main point is that the hybrid regime may be perceived as a distinct regime type,
alongside the democratic, authoritarian, totalitarian and sultanistic regime. Empirically, the project is cast as a comparative analysis
of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. These three cases will also be incorporated into a broader comparative framework in order to
explain the dynamics of hybrid regimes in general. Secondly, the project generates knowledge about the changing prospects for
international democracy assistance. Countries within this category – hybrid regimes – confront problems that differ significantly from
challenges faced by both development cooperation countries striving to be pluralist democracies and challenges faced by
fully-fledged authoritarian regimes. The project sets out to identify the prospects for democracy promotion in hybrid regimes by
analysing the dynamics and inner logic of this regime type.
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