Loading…
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...
| Main Authors: | , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Published: |
Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2016]
|
| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.