Jennifer Gandhi

Political Institutions Under Dictatorship

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Produktbeschreibung

Gandhi's cross-national study examines the political uses of nominally democratic institutions by non-democratic states.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 579g
• ISBN-13: 9780521897952
• ISBN-10: 0521897955
• Artikelnr.: 24928365

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Gandhi is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Emory University. She received her PhD in comparative politics and political economy from New York University in 2004. Her research interests include the political institutions dictators use to maintain power and the strategies the opposition may adopt in response. Her work has appeared in Economics and Politics and Comparative Political Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The world of dictatorial institutions
2. Three illustrative cases
3. The use of institutions to co-opt
4. Institutions and policies under dictatorship
5. Institutions and outcomes under dictatorship
6. Institutions and the survival of dictators.