Drivers of Authoritarianism

Edited by Günter Frankenberg, Emeritus Professor of Public Law, Philosophy of Law and Comparative Law, Institute for Public Law, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and Wilhelm Heitmeyer, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Bielefeld, Germany

Contents:

Preface xii

PART I ON THE THEORY AND EMPIRICISM OF
AUTHORITARIANISM
1 Authoritarian developments as a threat to democracy and
pluralism 2
Günter Frankenberg and Wilhelm Heitmeyer

PART II THREATS TO DEMOCRACIES AND
AUTHORITARIAN SYSTEM COMPETITION
2 Authoritarian forms of rule in the twenty-first century 60
Michael Zürn
3 Autocratisation as a global process? Authoritarianism and
democracy in an international context 84
Lars Rensmann
4 Self-assertion without self-determination: The new ideological appeal of old authoritarian concepts 121
Klaus Günther
5 The authoritarian direction of radicalised conservatism 151
Natascha Strobl

PART III CAPITALIST ECONOMIES AND SOCIAL CRISES
6 Loss of control, authoritarianism and exterminism in the
Great Transformation 166
Klaus Dörre
7 Crises and loss of control – opportunity structures for the
drivers of authoritarian social developments 196
Wilhelm Heitmeyer
8 Of ‘bulwarks’ and ‘sacred borders’. Authoritarian refugee
policies in Europe 220
Maximilian Pichl

PART IV AUTHORITARIAN MENTALITIES AND
IDENTITY POLITICS
9 Dynamics of authoritarianism: an essay 239
Oliver Decker
10 Authoritarian cultural identities: understanding the new
right in the tradition of Oswald Spengler 251
Volker Weiß
11 Left-wing identity politics as a driver of authoritarian
developments 272
Bernd Stegemann

PART V NEW ROLE ASSIGNMENTS, AFFECTIVE
NARRATIVES, AND MEDIA CONCEPTS OF POLITICS
12 Women, gender and right-wing authoritarian populism 288
Birgit Sauer
13 Promises of sovereignty in authoritarian populism: a feminist critique 308
Brigitte Bargetz and Nina Elena Eggers
14 Media entertainment and right-wing authoritarian political
ideas, an example: the storming of the Capitol 329
Paula Diehl

PART VI REPRESSIVE INSTRUMENTS AND
AUTHORITARIAN MOVEMENTS AND THE STATE
15 Leviathan with a beaked mask 349
Günter Frankenberg
16 Pegasus: the unbounded surveillance industry in the
service of the authoritarian 372
Kai Biermann
17 Under what conditions do authoritarian social movements
develop in western societies? 391
Dieter Rucht