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Dictators and democrats : masses, elites, and regime change /

From the 1980s through the first decade of the twenty-first century, the spread of democracy across the developing and post-Communist worlds transformed the global political landscape. What drove these changes and what determined whether the emerging democracies would stabilize or revert to authorit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Haggard, Stephan (Autor), Kaufman, Robert R. (Autor)
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2016]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction: Regime Change during the Third Wave: From Dictatorship to Democracy and Back; PART I: Inequality and Transitions to Democracy; Chapter 1 Inequality and Transitions to Democracy; PART II: Pathways to Democracy; Chapter 2 Modeling Democratic Transitions: Distributive Conflict and Elite Processes; Chapter 3 Distributive Conflict Transitions: Institutions and Collective Action; Chapter 4 Elite-Led Transitions: International Factors and Politics at the Top; Chapter 5 Transition Paths and the Quality of DemocracyPART III: Reversions from Democratic Rule; Chapter 6 Inequality, Development, and the Weak Democracy Syndrome; Chapter 7 Pathways to Authoritarian Rule; Chapter 8 Learning from Anomalies: Low-Income Survivors, Middle-Income Reverters; Conclusion: Whither Democracy?; References; Index.