Barbara Junisbai

The Pitfalls of Family Rule (eBook, ePUB)

Patronage Norms, Family Overreach, and Political Crisis in Kazakhstan and Beyond

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In The Pitfalls of Family Rule, Barbara Junisbai questions the conceptual divide separating democracy from non-democracy, as well as the conceptual divide separating "strong" authoritarian rulers from "weak" ones. Focusing on patronage, endemic to post-Soviet Eurasia, but also present the world over, she untangles the spoils agreements that bind elites to strong-man presidents. Incorporating multiple case studies, including an in-depth investigation into Kazakhstan over the span of 20-plus years, Junisbai demonstrates the power of institutional norms to hold seemingly un-constrainable rulers accountable in surprising and unexpected ways. "Strong" autocrats can stumble even when they set in place robust, pro-presidential institutions, while "weak" autocrats can endure by upholding normative contracts that elites perceive as fair and just.

An important lesson emerges from this The Pitfalls of Family Rule: Not even the most personalist of regimes functions free of rules. The institutions that autocrats claim control over also lay claim over them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501779077
• Artikelnr.: 72788577

Autorenporträt

Barbara Junisbai is Associate Professor of Organizational Studies at Pitzer College. Drawing on her personal experience researching, living, and working in a range of authoritarian contexts, she is committed to the co-creation of generative, accountable, and transparent human collectives.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Family Overreach and the Varied Fates of Personalist
Presidents
1. Patronage as a Normative Institution
2. Nazarbayev Family Overreach and Presidential Resilience, 2001-2002 and
2007
3. Karimov Family Overreach and Presidential Resilience, 2005 and 2013-2014
4. Family Overreach and the Downfall of Multiple Eurasian Presidents:
Akayev (2005), Bakiyev (2010), Yanukovych (2013-2014), and Nazarbayev
(2022-2023)
5. Family Overreach and Presidential Downfall in Comparative Perspective
6. Family Rule and Family-Induced Crisis, the View from Eurasia
Conclusion: Authoritarianism, Conceptions and Reconceptions