21st Century Authoritarianism: Resilience, Innovation, Reconsolidation

Programme

Chairs:

• Andrea Cassani, Università degli Studi di Milano
• Luca Tomini, Université Libre de Bruxelles

9-10,30 Workshop - session 1

• Felix Wiebrecht, Chinese University of Hong Kong
  Expertise or Echoes? Responsiveness in Authoritarian Institutions
• Žilvinas Švedkauskas, University of Tubingen
  Patient Autocrats: Comparing Constitutional Capture in the EU and its Neighborhood

10,30-11 Break

11-12,30 Workshop - session 2

• Tiziana Corda, University of Milan
  Winning the Battle of Narratives: How Autocrats and Their Opponents Fight to Control Information and Consolidate Power. Insights from the Ethiopian Case
  (with Braden Fuller, Clionadh Raleigh)
• Keith Prushankin & Mikhail Zabotkin, Freie Universität Berlin
  Populism as a Legitimation Strategy in Electoral Autocracies

12,30-14 Lunch break

14-15,30 Workshop - session 3

• Magalí Serra Duran, European University Institute
  Surviving Under Inequality. Women’s Rights in Authoritarian Regimes
• Sevgi Doğan, Scuola Normale Superiore
  A Gramscian Reading of Turkish neoliberal-Authoritarianism

15,30-16 Break

16-18 Round table

Chair: Gianni Del Panta, Scuola Normale Superiore

• Johannes Gerschewski, Berlin Social Sciences Center, WZB
• Bilge Yabanci, Università di Venezia
• Licia Cianetti, University of Birmingham
• Donatella della Porta, Scuola Normale Superiore

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