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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Colección: | Problems of international politics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 517 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-491) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511902260 0511902263 9780521882521 0521882524 9780521709156 0521709156 9780511900686 0511900686 9780511781353 0511781350 0511848846 9780511848841 1107211204 9781107211209 1282771515 9781282771512 9786612771514 6612771518 0511797710 9780511797712 |