Democracy, Dictatorship, and Default - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democracy, Dictatorship, and Default write by Cameron Ballard-Rosa. This book was released on 2020-08-13. Democracy, Dictatorship, and Default available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Politicians default on international debts to please key political supporters, depending on their capacity for voting or revolt.
Democracy, Dictatorship, and Default
Democracy, Dictatorship, and Default - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democracy, Dictatorship, and Default write by Cameron Ballard-Rosa. This book was released on 2020-08-13. Democracy, Dictatorship, and Default available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicts that, in the coming years, more than fifty countries are at risk of default. Yet we understand little about the political determinants of this decision to renege on promises to international creditors. This book develops and tests a unified theory of how domestic politics explains sovereign default across dictatorships and democracies. Professor Ballard-Rosa argues that both democratic and autocratic governments will choose to default when it is necessary for political survival; however, regime type has a significant impact on what specific kinds of threats leaders face. While dictatorships are concerned with avoiding urban riots, democratic governments are concerned with losing elections, in particular the support of rural voting blocs. Using cross-national data and historical case studies, Ballard-Rosa shows that leaders under each regime type are more likely to default when doing so allows them to keep funding costly policies supporting critical bases of support.
The Political Economy of Dictatorship
The Political Economy of Dictatorship - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Political Economy of Dictatorship write by Ronald Wintrobe. This book was released on 2000-09-25. The Political Economy of Dictatorship available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Although much of the world still lives today, as always, under dictatorship, the behaviour of these regimes and of their leaders often appears irrational and mysterious. In The Political Economy of Dictatorship, Ronald Wintrobe uses rational choice theory to model dictatorships: their strategies for accumulating power, the constraints on their behavior, and why they are often more popular than is commonly accepted. The book explores both the politics and the economics of dictatorships, and the interaction between them. The questions addressed include: What determines the repressiveness of a regime? Can political authoritarianism be 'good' for the economy? After the fall, who should be held responsible for crimes against human rights? The book contains many applications, including chapters on Nazi Germany, Soviet Communism, South Africa under apartheid, the ancient Roman Empire and Pinochet's Chile. It also provides a guide to the policies which should be followed by the democracies towards dictatorships.
Democracy, Dictatorship, and Term Limits
Democracy, Dictatorship, and Term Limits - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democracy, Dictatorship, and Term Limits write by Alexander Baturo. This book was released on 2014-02-10. Democracy, Dictatorship, and Term Limits available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A national constitution or other statute typically specifies restrictions on executive power, often including a limit to the number of terms the chief executive may hold office. In recent decades, however, some presidents of newly established democracies have extended their tenure by various semilegal means, thereby raising the specter—and in some cases creating the reality—of dictatorship. Alexander Baturo tracks adherence to and defiance of presidential term limits in all types of regimes (not only democratic regimes) around the world since 1960. Drawing on original data collection and fieldwork to investigate the factors that encourage playing by or manipulating the rules, he asks what is at stake for the chief executive if he relinquishes office. Baturo finds that the income-generating capacity of political office in states where rent-seeking is prevalent, as well as concerns over future immunity and status, determines whether or not an executive attempts to retain power beyond the mandated period. Democracy, Dictatorship, and Term Limitswill appeal to scholars of democratization and executive power and also to political theorists.
From Dictatorship to Democracy
From Dictatorship to Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Dictatorship to Democracy write by Gene Sharp. This book was released on 2008. From Dictatorship to Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A serious introduction to the use of nonviolent action to topple dictatorships. Based on the author's study, over a period of forty years, on non-violent methods of demonstration, it was originally published in 1993 in Thailand for distribution among Burmese dissidents.
