内容简介

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.

作品目录

Acknowledgments page xi
Acronyms and Abbreviations xv
Part I: Introduction and Theory 1
1 Introduction 3
2 Explaining Competitive Authoritarian Regime Trajectories: International
Linkage and the Organizational Power of Incumbents 37
Part II: High Linkage and Democratization: Eastern Europe
and the Americas 85
3 Linkage, Leverage, and Democratization in Eastern Europe 87
4 Linkage, Leverage, and Democratization in the Americas 130
Part III: The Dynamics of Competitive Authoritarianism in
Low-Linkage Regions: The Former Soviet Union, Africa, and Asia 181
5 The Evolution of Post-Soviet Competitive Authoritarianism 183
6 Africa: Transitions without Democratization 236
7 Diverging Outcomes in Asia 309
8 Conclusion 339
Appendix I: Measuring Competitive Authoritarianism and
Authoritarian Stability 365
Appendix II: Measuring Leverage 372
Appendix III: Measuring Linkage 374
Appendix IV: Measuring Organizational Power 376
References 381
Index 493
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作者简介

Steven Levitsky is Professor of Government at Harvard University. His research interests include political parties, political regimes, and informal institutions, with a focus on Latin America. Professor Levitsky is author of Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America: Argentine Peronism in Comparative Perspective (2003) and co-editor of Argentine Democracy: The Politics ...

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