Competitive authoritarianism hybrid regimes after the Cold War
"Competitive authoritarian regimes - in which autocrats submit to meaningful multiparty elections but engage in serious democratic abuse - proliferated in the post-Cold War era. Based on a detailed study of 35 cases in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and post-communist Eurasia, this book explores...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Cambridge u.a.
Cambridge Univ. Press
2010
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| Schriftenreihe: | Problems of international politics
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Authoritarianism
> Case studies
> Democratization
> Political development
> Political stability
> Autoritarismus
> Politischer Wandel
> Demokratie
> Demokratisierung
> Hybrides Regime
> Postkommunismus
> Fallstudie
> Global
> Politische Herrschaft
> Afrika
> Amerika
> Erde
> Autoritärer Staat
> Politische Stabilität
> Geschichte 1980-2008
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "Competitive authoritarian regimes - in which autocrats submit to meaningful multiparty elections but engage in serious democratic abuse - proliferated in the post-Cold War era. Based on a detailed study of 35 cases in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and post-communist Eurasia, this book explores the fate of competitive authoritarian regimes between 1990 and 2008. It finds that where social, economic, and technocratic ties to the West were extensive, as in Eastern Europe and the Americas, the external cost of abuse led incumbents to cede power rather than crack down, which led to democratization. Where ties to the West were limited, external democratizing pressure was weaker and countries rarely democratized. In these cases, regime outcomes hinged on the character of state and ruling party organizations. Where incumbents possessed developed and cohesive coercive party structures, they could thwart opposition challenges, and competitive authoritarian regimes survived; where incumbents lacked such organizational tools, regimes were unstable but rarely democratized"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 381-491. - Index Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke |
| Beschreibung: | xviii, 517 Seiten Diagramme cm |
| ISBN: | 9780521709156 978-0-521-70915-6 9780521882521 978-0-521-88252-1 |