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UNINA9910460049003321 |
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Autore |
Levitsky Steven |
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Competitive authoritarianism : hybrid regimes after the Cold War / / Steven Levitsky, Lucan A. Way [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2010 |
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0-511-84884-6 |
1-107-21120-4 |
1-282-77151-5 |
9786612771514 |
0-511-78135-0 |
0-511-90147-X |
0-511-90226-3 |
0-511-79911-X |
0-511-79771-0 |
0-511-90068-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xviii, 517 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Problems of international politics |
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Disciplina |
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Authoritarianism |
Democratization |
Political development |
Political stability |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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. |
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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. |
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UNINA9910140105703321 |
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Autore |
Étienne Gilbert |
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Indian villages : achievements and Alarm Bells, 1952-2012 |
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Graduate Institute Publications, 2014 |
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[Place of publication not identified], : Graduate Institute Publications, 2014 |
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1 online resource (95 pages) |
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Development Studies ; ; Number 5 |
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Business & Economics |
Economic History |
India Economic conditions |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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This book presents a unique testimony on the evolution of the Indian peasant's world over more than sixty years. Its originality lies in part in the unique trajectory of its author, Gilbert Étienne, an exceptional man, |
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all at once scientific traveller, thinker of the North/South relationships and economist concerned by sociology and history inputs. In unfolding the story of his passionate relationship with India, the author offers a very personal look which takes into account not only crop diversification and production techniques, but also local anthropological structures and the conditions of the various castes, including the lowest ones. With its approximately 100 pages, the book is sometimes reminiscent of a collection of vignettes and impressions gathered while travelling, such as can be found in field notes. Here lies the strength of this unusual work, especially as the "things-seen" dimension is completed by penetrating reflections on the transformations of an agrarian society discovering modern consumer goods, on a comparison between France in 1946 and India today, and on the causes and consequences of contempt for agriculture in a country whose elites swear by cities, as Christophe Jaffrelot said. This book is the latest publication of Professor Gilbert Etienne, written before his death in May 2014. |
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