Dictators and Democrats (eBook)

Masses, Elites, and Regime Change

Stephan Haggard, Robert R. Kaufman (Autoren)

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2016
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8298-4 (ISBN)

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Stephan Haggard is the Lawrence and Sallye Krause Distinguished Professor at the Graduate School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego. Robert R. Kaufman is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University.

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A rigorous and comprehensive account of recent democratic transitions around the worldFrom the 1980s through the first decade of the twenty-first century, the spread of democracy across the developing and post-Communist worlds transformed the global political landscape. What drove these changes and what determined whether the emerging democracies would stabilize or revert to authoritarian rule? Dictators and Democrats takes a comprehensive look at the transitions to and from democracy in recent decades. Deploying both statistical and qualitative analysis, Stephen Haggard and Robert Kaufman engage with theories of democratic change and advocate approaches that emphasize political and institutional factors. While inequality has been a prominent explanation for democratic transitions, the authors argue that its role has been limited, and elites as well as masses can drive regime change.Examining seventy-eight cases of democratic transition and twenty-five reversions since 1980, Haggard and Kaufman show how differences in authoritarian regimes and organizational capabilities shape popular protest and elite initiatives in transitions to democracy, and how institutional weaknesses cause some democracies to fail. The determinants of democracy lie in the strength of existing institutions and the public's capacity to engage in collective action. There are multiple routes to democracy, but those growing out of mass mobilization may provide more checks on incumbents than those emerging from intra-elite bargains.Moving beyond well-known beliefs regarding regime changes, Dictators and Democrats explores the conditions under which transitions to democracy are likely to arise.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.8.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 20 line illus. 49 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Statistik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
• Schlagworte: authoritarianism • authoritarian regimes • autocracy • backsliding • Benin • Bolivia • Burundi • Calculation • Case study • causal inference • civil liberties • civil service • Civil Society • Civil War • class conflict • class structure • Clientelism • Cold War • Collective Action • communism • communist state • Conflict model (criminal justice) • Conflict theories • contentious politics • Cost–benefit analysis • Coup • coup d'état • coups • Crony Capitalism • Decree • de facto • defection • Democracy • democratic transitions • Democratization • Determinant • Dictatorship • distributive conflict • distributive conflicts • distributive conflict theories • Domestic politics • economic aid • Economic crisis • Economic Development • Economic Growth • Economic Inequality • economic performance • Ecuador • Election • electoral fraud • Elite • elite-led transitions • elite-reaction reversions • Elites • ethnic group • ethnonationalist organizations • Failed State • Freedom House • Government • Guatemala • Guinea-Bissau • Honduras • illiberal democracy • income • incumbent • Inequality • Institution • institutional strength • institutional weakness • Institutions • Insurgency • international factors • Latin America • left-wing politics • Legislature • Lesotho • Leverage • Liberalization • Linkage • low-income countries • Martial Law • Mass Mobilization • middle class • middle-income countries • military elite • military intervention • Modernization Theory • Multi-Party System • Neighbourhood effect • Non-governmental organization • Oligarchy • Opposition Party • Party System • Political Economy • political entrepreneurs • Political Freedom • Political organization • Political parties • Political Party • Political Science • Political System • Politician • Politics • populist reversions • praetorianism • Prerogative • Probability • Protest • Proximate cause • Recession • Referendum • Regime • regime change • Regression Analysis • Repression • result • reverters • right-wing politics • Ruler • security dilemma • Separation of Powers • slowdown • Social Movement • social organizations • Structural adjustment • Subsidy • Survivors • Term limit • Thailand • Third Wave • third world • Trade Union • transitional elections • transition paths • Union Movement • Unions • Veto • Voting • weak democracy • Zambia
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8298-2 / 1400882982
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8298-4 / 9781400882984