XI ICCEES World Congress

Toward an Institutionalized Personal Dictatorship? Institutions and Elite Mobility in Belarus

Wed23 Jul05:15pm(15 mins)
Where:
Room 13
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Authors

Atsushi Ogushi11 Keio University, Japan

Discussion

Belarus under Lukashenko has been regarded as a typical personalist dictatorship. In fact, he has ruled the country without a ruling political party; his frequent cadre shuffling prevented the formation of a dominant political clans. On the other hand, he directly appealed to the ordinary masses, taking advantage of the country’s relatively good economic life and social welfare. This ruling style faced a serious challenge in 2020. The mass demonstration against Lukashenko revealed that he now could not relay on his personal popularity. Since then, there is an attempt to create ‘collective Lukashenko’ in which the dictator rules in an institutionalized way. The constitutional change in 2022, the establishment of the People’s Assembly, and transformation of a social movement ‘Belaia Rus’’ into a political party can be considered in this context. This paper attempts to analyze the institutionalizing tendency by looking into elite mobility in the central and regional political institutions. 

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