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Dictators and Democrats: Masses, Elites, and Regime Change
By (Author) Stephan Haggard
By (author) Robert R. Kaufman
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
14th November 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Far-left political ideologies and movements
Comparative politics
321.8
Hardback
424
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
709g
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 authoritarian rule Dictators and Democrats takes a compre
"Haggard and Kaufman provide an erudite analysis of the complexities of transition from the authoritarian rule to democracy in the last three decades... A first-rate contribution to the literature on regime transition."--Choice
Stephan Haggard is the Lawrence and Sallye Krause Distinguished Professor at the Graduate School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego. Robert R. Kaufman is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University.