Dictators and Democrats : : Masses, Elites, and Regime Change / / Robert R. Kaufman, Stephan Haggard.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Haggard, Stephan,; Kaufman, Robert R.,
• MitwirkendeR: Teo, Terence,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (424 p.) :; 20 line illus. 49 tables.

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 authoritarian rule? Dictators and Democrats takes a comprehensive look at the transitions to and from democracy in recent decades. Deploying both statistical and qualitative analysis, Stephen Haggard and Robert Kaufman engage with theories of democratic change and advocate approaches that emphasize political and institutional factors. While inequality has been a prominent explanation for democratic transitions, the authors argue that its role has been limited, and elites as well as masses can drive regime change.Examining seventy-eight cases of democratic transition and twenty-five reversions since 1980, Haggard and Kaufman show how differences in authoritarian regimes and organizational capabilities shape popular protest and elite initiatives in transitions to democracy, and how institutional weaknesses cause some democracies to fail. The determinants of democracy lie in the strength of existing institutions and the public's capacity to engage in collective action. There are multiple routes to democracy, but those growing out of mass mobilization may provide more checks on incumbents than those emerging from intra-elite bargains.Moving beyond well-known beliefs regarding regime changes, Dictators and Democrats explores the conditions under which transitions to democracy are likely to arise.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- 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 Democracy -- Part 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