Michael Albertus, Victor Menaldo

Authoritarianism and the Elite Origins of Democracy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Provides an innovative theory of regime transitions and outcomes, and tests it using extensive evidence between 1800 and today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9781316649039
• ISBN-10: 1316649032
• Artikelnr.: 49275496

Autorenporträt

Michael Albertus is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. His research interests include redistribution, political regime transitions and regime stability, politics under dictatorship, clientelism, and conflict. Albertus's first book, Autocracy and Redistribution: The Politics of Land Reform (Cambridge, 2015), won the Gregory Luebbert Award for best book in comparative politics and the LASA Bryce Wood Award for best book on Latin America in the social sciences and humanities. He has also recently published in journals such as American Journal of Political Science, World Politics, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, British Journal of Political Science, and Comparative Political Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Elites and the causes and consequences of democracy; 2. Constitutions as
elite deal-making: content and trends; 3. Evidence on the causes and
consequences of democracy; 4. Unravelling the deal: constitutional
annulments and amendments under elite biased democracy; 5. Sweden: from
Agrarian oligarchy to progressive democracy; 6. Chile: from authoritarian
legacies to a new dawn? 7. Colonial and occupier legacies in new
democracies.