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Dictators and Democrats: Masses, Elites, and Regime Change
Stephan Haggard
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Hardback. Num Pages: 424 pages, 20 line illus. 49 tables. BIC Classification: 1QFW; 3JJ; 3JJPN; 3JMC; JPB; JPFC; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 168 x 279 x 30. Weight in Grams: 726.
From 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 ... Read more
From 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691172149
SKU
V9780691172149
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About Stephan Haggard
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.
Reviews for Dictators and Democrats: Masses, Elites, and Regime Change
"Haggard and Kaufman provide an erudite analysis of the complexities of transition from the authoritarian rule to democracy in the last three decades... A first-rate contribution to the literature on regime transition."
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