The Political Economy of Dictatorship
Title | The Political Economy of Dictatorship PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald Wintrobe |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 404 |
Release | 2000-09-25 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780521794497 |
This book uses rational choice theory to understand the behaviour of dictators.
Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
Title | Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | Daron Acemoglu |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 444 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780521855266 |
This book develops a framework for analyzing the creation and consolidation of democracy. Different social groups prefer different political institutions because of the way they allocate political power and resources. Thus democracy is preferred by the majority of citizens, but opposed by elites. Dictatorship nevertheless is not stable when citizens can threaten social disorder and revolution. In response, when the costs of repression are sufficiently high and promises of concessions are not credible, elites may be forced to create democracy. By democratizing, elites credibly transfer political power to the citizens, ensuring social stability. Democracy consolidates when elites do not have strong incentive to overthrow it. These processes depend on (1) the strength of civil society, (2) the structure of political institutions, (3) the nature of political and economic crises, (4) the level of economic inequality, (5) the structure of the economy, and (6) the form and extent of globalization.
Dictators and Democracy in African Development
Title | Dictators and Democracy in African Development PDF eBook |
Author | A. Carl LeVan |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 309 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1107081149 |
This book argues that the structure of the policy-making process in Nigeria explains variations in government performance better than other commonly cited factors.
European Business, Dictatorship, and Political Risk, 1920-1945
Title | European Business, Dictatorship, and Political Risk, 1920-1945 PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Kobrak |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | 286 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Business and politics |
ISBN | 9781571816290 |
For much of the twentieth century, the prevalence of dictatorial regimes has left business, especially multinational firms, with a series of complex and for the most part unwelcome choices. This volume, which includes essays by noted American and European scholars such as Mira Wilkins, Gerald Feldman, Peter Hayes, and Wilfried Feldenkirchen, sets business activity in its political and social context and describes some of the strategic and tactical responses of firms investing from or into Europe to a myriad of opportunities and risks posed by host or home country authoritarian governments during the interwar period. Although principally a work of history, it puts into perspective some commercial dilemmas with which practitioners and business theorists must still unfortunately grapple.
Political Institutions under Dictatorship
Title | Political Institutions under Dictatorship PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Gandhi |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010-07-26 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780521155717 |
Often dismissed as window-dressing, nominally democratic institutions, such as legislatures and political parties, play an important role in non-democratic regimes. In a comprehensive cross-national study of all non-democratic states from 1946 to 2002 that examines the political uses of these institutions by dictators, Gandhi finds that legislative and partisan institutions are an important component in the operation and survival of authoritarian regimes. She examines how and why these institutions are useful to dictatorships in maintaining power, analyzing the way dictators utilize institutions as a forum in which to organize political concessions to potential opposition in an effort to neutralize threats to their power and to solicit cooperation from groups outside of the ruling elite. The use of legislatures and parties to co-opt opposition results in significant institutional effects on policies and outcomes under dictatorship.
The Dictator's Handbook
Title | The Dictator's Handbook PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce Bueno de Mesquita |
Publisher | Public Affairs |
Total Pages | 354 |
Release | 2011-09-27 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 161039044X |
Explains the theory of political survival, particularly in cases of dictators and despotic governments, arguing that political leaders seek to stay in power using any means necessary, most commonly by attending to the interests of certain coalitions.
Constraining Dictatorship
Title | Constraining Dictatorship PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Meng |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 277 |
Release | 2020-08-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108834892 |
Examining constitutional rules and power-sharing in Africa reveals how some dictatorships become institutionalized, rule-based systems.