Competitive Authoritarianism
Steven Levitsky
ISBN: | 9780511848841 |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Published: | 16 August, 2010 |
Format: | eBook |
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Competitive Authoritarianism
Steven Levitsky
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 weak
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