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The politics of protest in hybrid regimes : managing dissent in post-communist Russia /
"Since the end of the Cold War, more and more countries feature political regimes that are neither liberal democracies nor closed authoritarian systems. Most research on these hybrid regimes focuses on how elites manipulate elections to stay in office, but in places as diverse as Bolivia, Georg...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Since the end of the Cold War, more and more countries feature political regimes that are neither liberal democracies nor closed authoritarian systems. Most research on these hybrid regimes focuses on how elites manipulate elections to stay in office, but in places as diverse as Bolivia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Serbia, Thailand, Ukraine, and Venezuela, protest in the streets has been at least as important as elections in bringing about political change. The Politics of Protest in Hybrid Regimes builds on previously unpublished data and extensive fieldwork in Russia to show how one high-profile hybrid regime manages political competition in the workplace and in the streets. More generally, the book develops a theory of how the nature of organizations in society, state strategies for mobilizing supporters, and elite competition shape political protest in hybrid regimes"--Provided by publisher |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 285 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-236) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511930188 0511930186 9780511932861 0511932863 9780511921209 0511921209 1107213029 9781107213029 0511852703 9780511852701 1282916327 9781282916326 9786612916328 661291632X 0511931522 9780511931529 0511927673 9780511927676 0511925131 9780511925139 |