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Political institutions under dictatorship /
Often dismissed as window dressing, nominally democratic institutions, such as legislatures and political parties, play an important role in non-democratic regimes. In a comprehensive cross-national study of all non-democratic states from 1946 to 2002 that examines the political uses of these instit...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Often dismissed as window dressing, nominally democratic institutions, such as legislatures and political parties, play an important role in non-democratic regimes. In a comprehensive cross-national study of all non-democratic states from 1946 to 2002 that examines the political uses of these institutions by dictators, Jennifer Gandhi finds that legislative and partisan institutions are an important component in the operation and survival of authoritarian regimes. She examines how and why these institutions are useful to dictatorships in maintaining power. In their efforts to neutralize threats to their power and to solicit cooperation from society, autocratic leaders use these institutions to organize concessions to potential opposition. The use of legislatures and parties to co-opt opposition results in significant institutional effects on policies and outcomes under dictatorship. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 232 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-213) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780511438288 0511438281 0511437617 9780511437618 1281903558 9781281903556 9780511510090 0511510098 9780521897952 0521897955 9780521155717 0521155711 1107201977 9781107201972 9786611903558 6611903550 0511436157 9780511436154 0511435363 9780511435362 0511436939 9780511436932 |