Pan­el: The Con­tra­dic­tions of ‘Soft Author­i­tar­i­an­ism’: Under­stand­ing the Trans­for­ma­tions with­in Con­tem­po­rary Democracies

This pan­el is part of the 1st Inter­na­tion­al Con­fer­ence on Con­tra­dic­tion Stud­ies at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Bremen.

Chair: Bur­cu Nur Bin­buğa
Speak­ers and Top­ics:

• Ulrike Flad­er: Con­sti­tu­tive Twists: Grasp­ing Soft Author­i­tar­i­an Gov­ern­ment in Turkey
• Nurhak Polat: Unpack­ing (Un)Predictability: Soft Author­i­tar­i­an Drift and Data Pol­i­tics in Turkey
• Lipin Ram: The Mak­ing of a ‘Preda­to­ry Iden­ti­ty’: Demo­graph­ic Anx­i­ety and Reac­tionary Mobi­liza­tion in South India
• Hagen Stein­hauer: Blur­ring Ide­o­log­i­cal Lines: Soft Author­i­tar­i­an Shifts in French Pub­lic Discourse