Dictators and Democrats : : Masses, Elites, and Regime Change /

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

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 authorit...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (424 p.) :; 20 line illus. 49 tables.
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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

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