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Record Nr.

UNINA9911150262003321

Autore

Baofu Peter

Titolo

The rise of authoritarian liberal democracy : a preface to a new theory of comparative political systems / / by Peter Baofu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle, : Cambridge Scholars, 2007

Newcastle : , : Cambridge Scholars, , 2007

ISBN

1-282-19124-1

9786612191244

1-4438-0750-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (343 p.)

Disciplina

320.3

Soggetti

Authoritarianism

Liberalism

Comparative government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-293) and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. Meta-theory -- pt. 3. Theory -- pt. 4. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

There is something fundamentally wrong with the conventional wisdom in the field of Comparative Politics, Political Theory, and even Political Science as a whole, which rigidly conceptualize and theorize political systems in terms of different categories (e.g., liberal-democratic vs. authoritarian), which are supposed to be distinct and separate, without much mixing of each other, certainly not in any major way. A liberal-democratic political system (like the one in the U.S.), in accordance...