Political opposition in authoritarianism : exit, voice and loyalty in Kazakhstan / Rico Isaacs.
Isaacs, Rico, author.
2022
DK908.8675
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Title
Political opposition in authoritarianism : exit, voice and loyalty in Kazakhstan / Rico Isaacs.
Author
Isaacs, Rico, author.
ISBN
9783031065361 (electronic bk.)
3031065360 (electronic bk.)
9783031065354
3031065352
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06536-1
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 160 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-06536-1 doi
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DK908.8675
Dewey Decimal Classification
958.43/086
Summary
How might political opposition shape regime outcomes over time in an authoritarian system? Most studies on political opposition in authoritarian contexts tend to focus on the agency of the regime over and above that of the political opposition. Using Albert Hirschmans framework of exit, voice and loyalty, this book examines the case of Kazakhstani opposition agency over 30 years to explore the extent to which political opposition in Kazakhstan has shaped the dynamics of authoritarian regime development in the country. What the analysis reveals is that in Kazakhstan the regime has tended to treat formal institutional political opposition as neither a credible nor non-credible threat. Consequently, the Kazakhstani regime has always responded to opposition exit and voice with sanctions and institutional adaption which strengthened the regime in the short to medium term, but left them exposed to spontaneous, grassroots non-institutional opposition in the longer term. This spontaneous grassroots opposition emerged in Kazakhstan as a series of shocks crystalised in the 2011 events in Zhanaozen, the 2016 land protests, the 2019 election protests and the events of qandy qantar (bloody January) in 2022. What this book illustrates is how authoritarian regimes which treat opposition threats ambiguously are likely to end up in a continuous state of instability because the feedback provided by opposition agency disappears leaving the regime susceptible to spontaneous opposition. Rico Isaacs is Professor of International Politics at the University of Lincoln, UK.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Theories, concepts and practices of democracy.
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Political opposition in authoritarianism.
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1. Introduction: Authoritarian Institutions, Regimes and Political Opposition
2. Defining, Conceptualising and Theorising Opposition-Regime Relations in Authoritarian Regimes
3. Exit, Voice, Loyalty: An Analytical Framework for Opposition Agency in Authoritarian Regimes
4. The Development of a Personalist-Authoritarianism Regime in Kazakhstan
5. Exit, Voice and Loyalty: Opposition Strategies and Choice from above in Kazakhstan
6. Non-Oligarchic Public Voice in Kazakhstan from Below 2011-2022
7. Conclusion.

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