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Author | : Graeme Gill |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2015-11-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1316425495 |
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Graeme Gill shows why post-Soviet Russia has failed to achieve the democratic outcome widely expected at the time of the fall of the Soviet Union, instead emerging as an authoritarian polity. He argues that the decisions of dominant elites have been central to the construction of an authoritarian polity, and explains how this occurred in four areas of regime-building: the relationship with the populace, the manipulation of the electoral system, the internal structure of the regime itself, and the way the political elite has been stabilised. Instead of the common 'Yeltsin is a democrat, Putin an autocrat' paradigm, this book shows how Putin built upon the foundations that Yeltsin had laid. It offers a new framework for the study of an authoritarian political system, and is therefore relevant not just to Russia but to many other authoritarian polities.
Author | : Graeme Gill |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0192849689 |
Download Bridling Dictators Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book offers a new perspective on authoritarian politics. Rather than the leadership of the authoritarian political systems being always characterized by arbitrariness, fear, and struggle for power, this book argues that politics of such regimes are structured by a series of rules which bring some consistency and predictability.
Author | : Milan W. Svolik |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2012-09-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 110702479X |
Download The Politics of Authoritarian Rule Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
What drives politics in dictatorships? Milan W. Svolik argues authoritarian regimes must resolve two fundamental conflicts. Dictators face threats from the masses over which they rule - the problem of authoritarian control. Secondly from the elites with whom dictators rule - the problem of authoritarian power-sharing. Using the tools of game theory, Svolik explains why some dictators establish personal autocracy and stay in power for decades; why elsewhere leadership changes are regular and institutionalized, as in contemporary China; why some dictatorships are ruled by soldiers, as Uganda was under Idi Amin; why many authoritarian regimes, such as PRI-era Mexico, maintain regime-sanctioned political parties; and why a country's authoritarian past casts a long shadow over its prospects for democracy, as the unfolding events of the Arab Spring reveal. Svolik complements these and other historical case studies with the statistical analysis on institutions, leaders and ruling coalitions across dictatorships from 1946 to 2008.
Author | : Graeme Gill |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2015-11-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1107130085 |
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Argues that post-Soviet Russia was never on a democratic trajectory because dominant elites always fostered the building of an authoritarian polity.
Author | : Ora John Reuter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781316774892 |
Download The Origins of Dominant Parties Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book asks why dominant political parties emerge in some authoritarian regimes, but not in others, focusing on Russia's experience under Putin
Author | : Valerie Bunce |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 019009348X |
Download Citizens and the State in Authoritarian Regimes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"This volume compares the most powerful authoritarian states in global politics today: Russia and China. For all their power and money, both regimes have faced difficult tradeoffs in seeking both political stability and reliable information about society while confronting the West and its international influence. They have also made different choices: Russia today is a competitive authoritarian regime, while China is a non-competitive authoritarian regime. Desite the different paths taken after the tumultuous events of 1989, both regimes have returned to a more personalized form of authoritarian rule. By placing China and Russia side-by-side, this volume examines regime-society relations and produces new insights, including what strategies their rulers have used to stay in power while forging political stability and gathering information; how societal groups have resisted, complied, or responded to these strategies; and what costs and benefits, anticipated and unexpected, have accompanied the bargains political leaders and their societies have struck. The essays in this volume change the way we understand authoritarian politics and expand the terrain of how we analyze regime-society relations in authoritarian states. On the societal side, this book looks not just at society as a whole, but also the more specific roles of public opinion, labor politics, political socialization, political protests, media politics, environmental movements, and non-governmental organizations. On the regime side, this study is distinctive in examining not just domestic threats and the general strategies rulers deploy in order to manage them, but also international threats and the rationale behind and impact of new laws and new policies, both domestic and international"--
Author | : Ora John Reuter |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2017-04-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107171768 |
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This book asks why dominant political parties emerge in some authoritarian regimes, but not in others, focusing on Russia's experience under Putin.
Author | : Steven Levitsky |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2010-08-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1139491482 |
Download Competitive Authoritarianism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Antonio Costa Pinto |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2013-09-13 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1317986431 |
Download Dealing with the Legacy of Authoritarianism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In recent years the agenda of how to ‘deal with the past’ has become a central dimension of the quality of contemporary democracies. Many years after the process of authoritarian breakdown, consolidated democracies revisit the past either symbolically or to punish the elites associated with the previous authoritarian regimes. New factors, like international environment, conditionality, party cleavages, memory cycles and commemorations or politics of apologies, do sometimes bring the past back into the political arena. This book addresses such themes by dealing with two dimensions of authoritarian legacies in Southern European democracies: repressive institutions and human rights abuses. The thrust of this book is that we should view transitional justice as part of a broader ‘politics of the past’: an ongoing process in which elites and society under democratic rule revise the meaning of the past in terms of what they hope to achieve in the present. This book was published as a special issue of South European Society and Politics.
Author | : Weitseng Chen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2020-07-16 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1108496687 |
Download Authoritarian Legality in Asia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Provides an intra-Asia comparative perspective of authoritarian legality, with a focus on formation, development, transition and post-transition stages.