Publication Date
2025
Document Type
Book
Description
This research focuses on the area of how modern autocratic regimes legitimize themselves using existing social and governing institutions. Using inductive reasoning, this work will perform an examination of the Russian post-Soviet transition towards authoritarianism with Putin’s rise to power as a consideration of modern personalist autocracies and their relationship to independent societal institutions. Contemporary regime analysis indicates a trend towards increased personalized regime support at the expense of civil structures and general welfare. This is indicative of the realization of legitimacy through the ascendency of personal governing networks, thereby gutting legitimate institutions of power. This contributes to the larger discussion regarding the public support and stability enjoyed by dictatorial regimes and how the transition toward such governments is paved with civil erosion.
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Recommended Citation
McKeon, Nicholas, "Legitimacy and Institutions in Personalized Authoritarian Regimes" (2025). Research Days Posters 2025. 118.
https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2025/118
