03154cam a22003854a 45000010009000000050017000090080041000260100015000670200029000820200026001110200025001370200022001620400067001840820019002511000028002702450104002982600066004023000045004684900039005135000025005525000024005775040031006015050610006325201080012426500042023226500041023646500047024056500045024526530025024976550024025227000030025469420019025769990017025959520156026121608916420141217131926.0100209s2010    xxuak  frb   f001 0 eng d  a2010005438  a9780521882521 (hardback)  a0521882524 (hardback)  a9780521709156 (pbk.)  a0521709156 (pbk.)  aDLCcDLCdBTCTAdCDXdYDXCPdIAYdVVCdSTFdDLCdDLCdEG-ScBUE00a321.9222bLEV1 aLevitsky, Steven93695710aCompetitive authoritarianism :bhybrid regimes after the Cold War /cSteven Levitsky, Lucan A. Way.  aNew York, United States :bCambridge University Press,c2010.  axviii, 517 p. :bforms, tables ;c24 cm.0 aProblems of international politics  aIncludes appendixes.  aIndex : p. 493-517.  aBibliography : p. 381-491.0 aIntroduction 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.  a"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"- 0aAuthoritarianismxCase studies936958 0aDemocratizationxCase studies936959 0aPolitical developmentvCase studies936960 0aPolitical stabilityvCase studies936961  bBUSBOLcDecember2014  vreading book9342321 aWay, Lucan,d1968-936962  2ddck321.9 LEV  c18792d18764  00102ddc40708BaccahaMAINbMAINc1STd2014-12-17epurchaseg250.00h21291l4m13o321.9 LEVp000037208r2025-07-15 00:00:00s2019-02-10v313.00yBB