Od polyarchií k autokraciím

from the polyarchic republican city-states to the authoritarian regimes of personal power in the
Renaissance Italy and into the contemporary processes of autocratic reversals. The authors strive
to show that it is useful to pay thorough attention to varying theoretical challenges characterizing
agendas of research into historically diverse regime transitions. In such a way, it is possible to
expose and assess limits and directionality of prevailing research programs. This seems important
in order to gain new incentives for an advancement of thinking about both contemporary and
historical processes of autocratization and to enhance a promising cross-fertilization of the study
of regime changes conducted by political science, historical sociology and historiography.