Aurel Croissant
Heidelberg University
141 Papers
865 Citations
Aurel Croissant is an academic researcher from Heidelberg University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Democracy & Politics. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 133 publications. Previous affiliations of Aurel Croissant include Naval Postgraduate School.
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Papers
From transition to defective democracy: mapping Asian democratization
TL;DR: A systematic inquiry of democratic development in Asia is conducted in this article, where the authors show two main trends of democratization in south, south-east and north-east Asia: the institutionalization of political rights and the decline of the rule of law and civil liberties.
Changing Welfare Regimes in East and Southeast Asia: Crisis, Change and Challenge
TL;DR: In this article, a systematic review of the development, levels and patterns of welfare regimes in the Asia-Pacific region is presented, and two core questions are answered: can the existing welfare systems help mitigate the social impact of the financial and economic crisis? What are the needs, challenges and developmental perspectives that inform the future of welfare regime in this region?
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Democratization and Civilian Control in Asia
Aurel Croissant,David Kuehn,Philip Lorenz,Paul Chambers +3 more
- 29 Jan 2013
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed the concept of civilian control of the military in new Democracies and explained the causes and consequences of such a system, including the failure of civilian control.
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Civil Society and Competitive Authoritarianism in Malaysia
TL;DR: In this article, the development of civil society in Malaysia under competitive authoritarian rule is investigated. And the authors focus on three main questions: What role does civil society play under competitive dictatorship? Can it successfully challenge authoritarianism? Or does the existence of a civil society actually strengthen the stability of the authoritarian order?
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The “dictator’s endgame”: Explaining military behavior in nonviolent anti-incumbent mass protests
TL;DR: In this article, a configurative theory to explain military reactions to nonviolent mass protests in dictatorships is introduced, and an empirical analysis of three cases of such "dictators endgames" is presented.
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