Competitive Authoritarianism : Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War
ISBN: 9780521709156 | 0521709156
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 8/16/2010
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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 qualitative 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.
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... MORE
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... MORE
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Acronyms and Abbreviations | p. xv |
| Introduction and Theory | p. 1 |
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| Explaining Competitive Authoritarian Regime Trajectories: International Linkage and the Organizational Power of Incumbents | p. 37 |
| High-Linkage and Democratization: Eastern Europe and the Americas | p. 85 |
| Linkage, Leverage, and Democratization in Eastern Europe | p. 87 |
| Linkage, Leverage, and Democratization in the Americas | p. 130 |
| The Dynamics of Competitive Authoritarianism in Low-Linkage Regions: The Former Soviet Union, Africa, and Asia | p. 181 |
| The Evolution of Post-Soviet Competitive Authoritarianism | p. 183 |
| Africa: Transitions without Democratization | p. 236 |
| Diverging Outcomes in Asia | p. 309 |
| Conclusion | p. 339 |
| Measuring Competitive Authoritarianism and Authoritarian Stability | p. 365 |
| Measuring Leverage | p. 372 |
| Measuring Linkage | p. 374 |
| Measuring Organizational Power | p. 376 |
| References | p. 381 |
| Index | p. 493 |
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Steven Levitsky is Professor of Government at Harvard University. Lucan A. Way is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto.
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