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| ISBN: | 9780511438288
0511438281
0511437617
9780511437618
1281903558
9781281903556
9780511510090
0511510098
9780521897952
0521897955
9780521155717
0521155711
0521897955
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-213) and indexes.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | Often dismissed as window dressing, nominally democratic institutions, such as legislatures and political parties, play an important role in non-democratic regimes. In a comprehensive cross-national study of all non-democratic states from 1946 to 2002 that examines the political uses of these institutions by dictators, Jennifer Gandhi finds that legislative and partisan institutions are an important component in the operation and survival of authoritarian regimes. She examines how and why these institutions are useful to dictatorships in maintaining power. In their efforts to neutralize threats to their power and to solicit cooperation from society, autocratic leaders use these institutions to organize concessions to potential opposition. The use of legislatures and parties to co-opt opposition results in significant institutional effects on policies and outcomes under dictatorship.
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| Other form: | Print version: Gandhi, Jennifer, 1975- Political institutions under dictatorship. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008 9780521897952 0521897955
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