Dictators and Democrats - 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 Dictators and Democrats write by Stephan Haggard. This book was released on 2016-08-30. Dictators and Democrats available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A rigorous and comprehensive account of recent democratic transitions around the world 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 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.
Discourse, Dictators and Democrats
Discourse, Dictators and Democrats - 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 Discourse, Dictators and Democrats write by Dr Richard D Anderson Jr. This book was released on 2014-05-28. Discourse, Dictators and Democrats available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Voting hides a familiar puzzle. Many people take the trouble to vote even though each voter's prospect of deciding the election is nearly nil. Russians vote even when pervasive electoral fraud virtually eliminates even that slim chance. The right to vote has commonly been won by protesters who risked death or injury even though any one protester could have stayed home without lessening the protest’s chance of success. Could people vote or protest because they stop considering their own chances and start to think about an identity shared with others? If what they hear or read affects political identity, a shift in political discourse might not just evoke protests and voting but also make the minority that has imposed the dictator’s will suddenly lose heart. During the Soviet Union’s final years the cues that set communist discourse apart from standard Russian sharply dwindled. A similar convergence of political discourse with local language has preceded expansion of the right to vote in many states around the globe. Richard D. Anderson, Jr., presents a groundbreaking theory of what language use does to politics.
Dictators and Democrats
Dictators and Democrats - 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 Dictators and Democrats write by Lawrence A. Fernsworth. This book was released on 1941. Dictators and Democrats available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Dictators, Democrats, and Development in Southeast Asia
Dictators, Democrats, and Development in Southeast Asia - 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 Dictators, Democrats, and Development in Southeast Asia write by Michael T. Rock. This book was released on 2017. Dictators, Democrats, and Development in Southeast Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "An examination of how dictators and democrats in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand built and sustained pro-growth political coalitions"--
Dictators and Democrats
Dictators and Democrats - 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 Dictators and Democrats write by S. R. Whitford. This book was released on 1956. Dictators and Democrats available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
