02986cam a22003734a 4500 16089164 20141217131926.0 100209s2010 xxuak frb f001 0 eng d 2010005438 9780521882521 (hardback) 0521882524 (hardback) 9780521709156 (pbk.) 0521709156 (pbk.) DLC DLC BTCTA CDX YDXCP IAY VVC STF DLC DLC EG-ScBUE 321.9 22 LEV Levitsky, Steven 36957 Competitive authoritarianism : hybrid regimes after the Cold War / Steven Levitsky, Lucan A. Way. New York, United States : Cambridge University Press, 2010. xviii, 517 p. : forms, tables ; 24 cm. Problems of international politics Includes appendixes. Index : p. 493-517. Bibliography : p. 381-491. Introduction and theory. Introduction ; Explaining competitive authoritarian regime trajectories : international linkage and the organizational power of incumbents-High linkage and democratization : Eastern Europe and the Americas. Linkage, leverage, and democratization in Eastern Europe ; Linkage, leverage, and democratization in the Americas-The dynamics of competitive authoritarianism in low-linkage regions: the former Soviet Union, Africa, and Asia. The evolution of post-Soviet competitive authoritarianism ; Africa : transitions without democratization ; Diverging outcomes in Asia ; Conclusion. "Competitive authoritarian regimes-in which autocrats submit to meaningful multiparty elections but engage in serious democratic abuse - proliferated in the post-Cold War era. 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"- Authoritarianism Case studies 36958 Democratization Case studies 36959 Political development Case studies 36960 Political stability Case studies 36961 BUSBOL December2014 reading book 34232 Way, Lucan, 1968- 36962 ddc 321.9 LEV 18792 18764 0 0 ddc 0 0 Baccah MAIN MAIN 1ST 2014-12-17 purchase 250.00 21291 4 13 321.9 LEV 000037208 2025-07-15 00:00:00 2019-02-10 313.00 BB