Project description
The role of students in the rise of authoritarian regimes
The Freedom House index ‘Democracy in Retreat’ showed a global decline in political rights and civil liberties from 2005 to 2018. Long-standing democracies, as well as those part of ‘democracy’s third wave’, experienced alarming erosion. Scholars initially considered the period as a time when democracy would eventually become global. However, a new wave of regime changes has led to an ‘authoritarian resurgence’, sparking a debate among scholars regarding the causes of such ‘new’ authoritarian regimes. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) programme, the AAPSG project will study the role of students in the rise of authoritarian and autocratic regimes. The project focuses on Bangladesh and Uganda as case studies to investigate how globally connected student groups are significant actors in the autocratisation processes.
Objective
"""Democracy in Retreat"" was the 2019 title of the Freedomhouse index, which ascertained 13 consecutive years of a global decline in political rights and civil liberties from 2005 to 2018. The report foregrounds the alarming erosion of long-standing democracies and those part of ""democracy's third wave"", which began in the 1970s in Southern Europe, followed by countries in Latin America and East Asia and culminated in the dramatic regime breakdowns initiated by democratic reforms in Central-Eastern Europe (Soviet Union), South Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa. A period that has inspired scholars to deliberate the idea of democracy representing the ""ultimate end of a country’s political development"" or even the ""end of history"" itself. This period of democratization was initially lauded as a ""linear set sequence"", which would eventually encompass the globe. From the early 21st century on, however, a new generation of scholars has been describing a reverse wave of regime changes (Diamond, 2015; Lührmann & Lindberg, 2019). This ""authoritarian resurgence"" has evoked a scholarly debate on the causes, mechanisms, and perseverance of such ""new"" authoritarian regimes (Cassani & Tomini, 2019; Del Panta, 2019; Wiatr, 2019). While (university) student movements were commonly identified as prominent actors/forces of social change during the third democratization wave, my research will examine the role students play in the creation, maintenance, and innovation of (resurgent) authoritarian/autocratic regimes. They represent an alternative form of citizenship that neither fits needly into universalized social locations, such as ""civil society"", nor postcolonial conceptualization, such as Chatterjee's (2004) ""political society"". Using Bangladesh and Uganda as case studies, my research project explores how globally connected student groups are influential and understudied actors in autocratization processes and the shaping of these ""new"" regimes’ ideological foundations."
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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04109 Leipzig
Germany
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