Dictators and democrats : masses, elites, and regime change / Stephan Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman.

From the 1980s through the first decade of the twenty-first century, the spread of democracy across the developing and post-Communist worlds transformed the global political landscape. What drove these changes and what determined whether the emerging democracies would stabilize or revert to authorit...

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Main Authors: Haggard, Stephan (Author), Kaufman, Robert R. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2016]
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Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1 Inequality and Transitions to Democracy
  • ch. 2 Modeling Democratic Transitions: Distributive Conflict and Elite Processes (with Terence Teo)
  • ch. 3 Distributive Conflict Transitions: Institutions and Collective Action
  • ch. 4 Elite-Led Transitions: International Factors and Politics at the Top
  • ch. 5 Transition Paths and the Quality of Democracy (with Terence Teo)
  • ch. 6 Inequality, Development, and the Weak Democracy Syndrome (with Terence Teo)
  • ch. 7 Pathways to Authoritarian Rule
  • ch. 8 Learning from Anomalies: Low-Income Survivors, Middle-Income Reverters
  • Conclusion: Whither Democracy?