Constraining Dictatorship: From Personalized Rule to Institutionalized Regimes

How do some dictatorships become institutionalized ruled-based systems, while others remain heavily personalist? Once implemented, do executive...
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Author: Anne Meng
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Constraining Dictatorship: From Personalized Rule to Institutionalized Regimes by Meng, Anne

Constraining Dictatorship: From Personalized Rule to Institutionalized Regimes

CHF 75.40

Constraining Dictatorship: From Personalized Rule to Institutionalized Regimes

CHF 75.40
Author: Anne Meng
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

Author: Anne Meng
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 08/20/2020
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d
ISBN: 9781108792479

About the Author
Meng, Anne: - Anne Meng is Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics, University of Virginia. Her research centers on authoritarian politics and institutions. Professor Meng's work has been published in the British Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Theoretical Politics, Columbia Law Review, and Studies in Comparative International Development, and has won the 'Best Paper Award' from the Democracy and Autocracy section at APSA.

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