Author : Anne Meng
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File Size : 44,92 MB
Release : 2020-12
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ISBN : 9781108877497
Constraining Dictatorship
Anne Meng
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How Dictatorships Work
Barbara Geddes
Author : Barbara Geddes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 32,47 MB
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107115825
Explains how dictatorships rise, survive, and fall, along with why some but not all dictators wield vast powers.
Constraining Dictatorship
Anne Meng
Author : Anne Meng
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 20,55 MB
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108892140
How do some dictatorships become institutionalized ruled-based systems, while others remain heavily personalist? Once implemented, do executive constraints actually play an effective role in promoting autocratic stability? To understand patterns of regime institutionalization, this book studies the emergence of constitutional term limits and succession procedures, as well as elite power-sharing within presidential cabinets. Anne Meng argues that institutions credibly constrain leaders only when they change the underlying distribution of power between leaders and elites by providing elites with access to the state. She also shows that initially weak leaders who institutionalize are less likely to face coup attempts and are able to remain in office for longer periods than weak leaders who do not. Drawing on an original time-series dataset of 46 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa from 1960 to 2010, formal theory, and case studies, this book ultimately illustrates how some dictatorships evolve from personalist strongman rule to institutionalized regimes.
The Specter of Dictatorship
David M. Driesen
Author : David M. Driesen
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 31,6 MB
Release : 2021-07-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 1503628620
Reveals how the U.S. Supreme Court's presidentialism threatens our democracy and what to do about it. Donald Trump's presidency made many Americans wonder whether our system of checks and balances would prove robust enough to withstand an onslaught from a despotic chief executive. In The Specter of Dictatorship, David Driesen analyzes the chief executive's role in the democratic decline of Hungary, Poland, and Turkey and argues that an insufficiently constrained presidency is one of the most important systemic threats to democracy. Driesen urges the U.S. to learn from the mistakes of these failing democracies. Their experiences suggest, Driesen shows, that the Court must eschew its reliance on and expansion of the "unitary executive theory" recently endorsed by the Court and apply a less deferential approach to presidential authority, invoked to protect national security and combat emergencies, than it has in recent years. Ultimately, Driesen argues that concern about loss of democracy should play a major role in the Court's jurisprudence, because loss of democracy can prove irreversible. As autocracy spreads throughout the world, maintaining our democracy has become an urgent matter.
Constitutions in Authoritarian Regimes
Tom Ginsburg
Author : Tom Ginsburg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 31,22 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Law
ISBN : 1107047668
This volume explores the form and function of constitutions in countries without the fully articulated institutions of limited government.
Regime Threats and State Solutions
Mai Hassan
Author : Mai Hassan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 12,74 MB
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108490859
Delving inside the state, Hassan shows how leaders politicize bureaucrats to maintain power, even after the introduction of multi-party elections.
Laws of Politics
Alfred G. Cuzán
Author : Alfred G. Cuzán
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 23,95 MB
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1000423549
Drawing on classic and contemporary scholarship and empirical analysis of elections and public expenditures in 80 countries, the author argues for the existence of primary and secondary laws of politics. Starting with how basic elements of politics—leadership, organization, ideology, resources, and force—coalesce in the formation of states, he proceeds to examine the operations of those laws in democracies and dictatorships. Primary laws constrain the support that incumbents draw from the electorate, limiting their time in office. They operate unimpeded in democracies. Secondary laws describe the general tendency of the state to expand vis-à-vis economy and society. They exert their greatest force in one-party states imbued with a totalitarian ideology. The author establishes the primary laws in a rigorous analysis of 1,100 parliamentary and presidential elections in 80 countries, plus another 1,000 U.S. gubernatorial elections. Evidence for the secondary laws is drawn from public expenditure data series, with findings presented in easily grasped tables and graphs. Having established these laws quantitatively, the author uses Cuba as a case study, adding qualitative analysis and a practical application to propose a constitutional framework for a future Cuban democracy. Written in an engaging, jargon-free style, this enlightening book will be of great interest to students and scholars in political science, especially those specializing in comparative politics, as well as opinion leaders and engaged citizens.
Private Government
Elizabeth Anderson
Author : Elizabeth Anderson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 21,13 MB
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0691192243
Why our workplaces are authoritarian private governments—and why we can’t see it One in four American workers says their workplace is a “dictatorship.” Yet that number almost certainly would be higher if we recognized employers for what they are—private governments with sweeping authoritarian power over our lives. Many employers minutely regulate workers’ speech, clothing, and manners on the job, and employers often extend their authority to the off-duty lives of workers, who can be fired for their political speech, recreational activities, diet, and almost anything else employers care to govern. In this compelling book, Elizabeth Anderson examines why, despite all this, we continue to talk as if free markets make workers free, and she proposes a better way to think about the workplace, opening up space for discovering how workers can enjoy real freedom.
Dictators and Democracy in African Development
A. Carl LeVan
Author : A. Carl LeVan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 27,1 MB
Release : 2015
Category : 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.
Dictators, Democrats, and Development in Southeast Asia
Michael T. Rock
Author : Michael T. Rock
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 50,53 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0190619864
"An examination of how dictators and democrats in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand built and sustained pro-growth political coalitions"--