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" How dictatorships work : "
Barbara Geddes, Joseph Wright, Erica Frantz.
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839271
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Geddes, Barbara
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How dictatorships work : : power, personalization, and collapse /\ Barbara Geddes, Joseph Wright, Erica Frantz.
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ;New York, NY :: Cambridge University Press,, 2018.
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, ©2018
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xvi, 257 pages ;; 23 cm
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1107115825
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: 1107535956
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: 9781107115828
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: 9781107535954
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9781108691871
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9781316336182
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction : Implementing our definition of regime ; The groups that initiate dictatorships ; Conflict and bargaining within the seizure group ; Appendix: Coding rules for authoritarian regimes -- Part I. Initiation : Autocratic seizures of power : Who do dictatorial seizure groups oust? ; How dictatorships begin ; Before the seizure of power ; The morning after a seizure of power ; Post-seizure organization -- What do we know about coups? : Coups for various purposes ; Preconditions associated with regime-change coups ; Inequality and coups -- Part II. Elite consolidation : Power concentration: the effect of elite factionalism on personalization : Elite bargaining in dictatorships ; Handing power to a leader ; Bargaining over the distribution of resources and power ; Characteristics that influence the credibility of threats to oust the dictator ; Measuring personalism ; Patterns of Personalism ; The effect of factionalism on the personalization of power -- Dictatorial survival strategies in challenging conditions: factionalized armed supporters and party creation ; The strategic context ; The interaction of dispersed arms and factionalism ; The strategic creation of new political actors ; Evidence that post-seizure party creation aims to counterbalance factionalized armed supporters ; Post-seizure party creation and dictatorial survival ; The effect of post-seizure party creation on the likelihood of coups -- Part III. Ruling society: implementation and information gathering : Why parties and elections in dictatorships? : implementation, monitoring, and information gathering ; Elite competition and institutions that engage citizens ; Parties ; Dictatorial legislatures ; Elections -- Double-edged swords: specialized institutions for monitoring and coercion : Internal security agencies ; The army: bulwark of the regime or incubator of plots? ; The relationship between counterbalancing and interference -- Part IV. Dictatorial survival and breakdown : Why dictatorships fall : How dictatorships end ; Individual support and opposition ; The effect of crisis on decisions to oppose the dictatorship ; Economic crisis and breakdown ; Power concentration and regime survival ; Leadership changes and regime breakdown ; The dictator's future and the likelihood of democratization ; The effect of personalization on prospects for democracy -- Conclusion and policy implications.
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"This accessible volume shines a light on how autocracy really works by providing basic facts about how post-World War II dictatorships achieve, retain, and lose power."--Publisher's description.
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Dictators.
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Dictatorship.
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Dictators.
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Dictatorship.
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321.9
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JC495.G43 2018
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Frantz, Erica
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Wright, Joseph, (Joseph George),1976-
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