Name: Competitive Authoritarianism Paperback (Problems of International Politics)
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Author: Steven Levitsky
ISBN: 9780521709156

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Competitive Authoritarianism Paperback (Problems of International Politics)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Steven Levitsky

Lucan A. Way

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Year

2010

Language

English

Pages

536

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.4 x 15.5 x 3.6 cm

Weight

0.75 kg.

ISBN

0521709156

ISBN13

9780521709156

Synopsis "Competitive Authoritarianism Paperback (Problems of International Politics) "

Competitive authoritarian regimes - in which autocrats submit to meaningful multiparty elections but engage in serious democratic abuse - proliferated in the post-Cold War era. 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.

Steven Levitsky

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Steven Levitsky is an American political scientist born in 1968 in Ithaca, New York. He is a professor of Government and Latin American Studies at Harvard University and director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. His research focuses on comparative democracy, authoritarian regimes, and political institutions, with a special emphasis on Latin America. Levitsky is known for his work on competitive authoritarian regimes and his analysis of informal institutions in politics

Among his most notable works is How Democracies Die (2018), co-written with Daniel Ziblatt, which examines how elected leaders can gradually undermine democratic institutions. This book was awarded the NDR Kultur Sachbuchpreis in 2018 and the Goldsmith Book Prize in 2019.

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