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Authoritarian landscapes : popular mobilization and the institutional sources of resilience in nondemocracies / / Steve Hess



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Autore: Hess Steve Visualizza persona
Titolo: Authoritarian landscapes : popular mobilization and the institutional sources of resilience in nondemocracies / / Steve Hess Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Springer, c2013
Edizione: 1st ed. 2013.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (244 p.)
Disciplina: 300
320
320.01
320.53
Soggetto topico: Authoritarianism - Research
Protest movements
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Authoritarian Landscapes  -- Single-Party Regimes -- Taiwan -- China -- Personalist Regimes -- The Philippines -- Kazakhstan -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.       .
Sommario/riassunto: The turbulent year of 2011 has brought the appearance of mass popular unrest and the collapse of long lived autocratic regimes in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and possibly Syria. The sudden and unanticipated fall of these regimes – often thought of as exemplars of authoritarian resilience - has brought much of the conventional wisdom on the durability and vulnerability of nondemocratic regimes into question. This book seeks to advance the existing literature by treating the autocratic state not as a unitary actor characterized by strength or weakness but rather as a structure or terrain that can alternatively inhibit or facilitate the appearance of national level forms of protests. In the mode of the Arab Spring, the color revolutions of the former Soviet Union, and the people power movement of the Philippines, such movements overcome the daunting impediments presented by autocrats, appeal to likeminded counterparts across society, and overwhelm the ability of regimes to maintain order. Conversely, in other settings, such as contemporary China, decentralized state structures provide an inhospitable environment for national-level protest, leading collective actors to opt for more local and parochial forms of contention. This outcome produces paradoxical situations, such as in the PRC, where protests are frequent but national-level mobilization and coordination is absent.
Titolo autorizzato: Authoritarian Landscapes  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4614-6537-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910739428903321
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