Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 9781139554879
1139554875
9781139549912
113954991X
9781139176040
1139176048
9781139552424
1139552422
9781107024793
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9781107607453
1107607450
9781283575188
1283575183
1316089967
9781316089965
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9781139564700
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9781139551168
9786613887634
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1139556126
9781139556125
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | "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"--
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| Other form: | Print version: Svolik, Milan W., 1977- Politics of authoritarian rule. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2012 9781107024793
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| Standard no.: | ebr10591099
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