Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism by Levitsky, Steven

Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism

Why the world's most resilient dictatorships are products of violent revolution Revolution and Dictatorship explores why dictatorships...
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Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism by Levitsky, Steven

Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism

$84.40

Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism

$84.40
Author: Steven Levitsky
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Why the world's most resilient dictatorships are products of violent revolution

Revolution and Dictatorship explores why dictatorships born of social revolution--such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam--are extraordinarily durable, even in the face of economic crisis, large-scale policy failure, mass discontent, and intense external pressure. Few other modern autocracies have survived in the face of such extreme challenges. Drawing on comparative historical analysis, Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way argue that radical efforts to transform the social and geopolitical order trigger intense counterrevolutionary conflict, which initially threatens regime survival, but ultimately fosters the unity and state-building that supports authoritarianism.

Although most revolutionary governments begin weak, they challenge powerful domestic and foreign actors, often bringing about civil or external wars. These counterrevolutionary wars pose a threat that can destroy new regimes, as in the cases of Afghanistan and Cambodia. Among regimes that survive, however, prolonged conflicts give rise to a cohesive ruling elite and a powerful and loyal coercive apparatus. This leads to the downfall of rival organizations and alternative centers of power, such as armies, churches, monarchies, and landowners, and helps to inoculate revolutionary regimes against elite defection, military coups, and mass protest--three principal sources of authoritarian breakdown.

Looking at a range of revolutionary and nonrevolutionary regimes from across the globe, Revolution and Dictatorship shows why governments that emerge from violent conflict endure.

Author: Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 10/29/2024
Pages: 656
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.28w x 2.05d
ISBN: 9780691223582

About the Author
Steven Levitsky is the David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies, professor of government, and director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. His books include How Democracies Die and Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America. Lucan Way is Distinguished Professor of Democracy in the Department of Political Science and codirector of the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Pluralism by Default. Levitsky and Way are the coauthors of Competitive Authoritarianism.

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