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Patronal Politics

Patronal Politics

Hardcover

Series: Problems of International Politics

General Political Science

ISBN10: 1107073510
ISBN13: 9781107073517
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Oct 31 2014
Pages: 558
Weight: 2.05
Height: 1.40 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book proposes a new way of understanding events throughout the world that are usually interpreted as democratization, rising authoritarianism, or revolution. Where the rule of law is weak and corruption pervasive, what may appear to be democratic or authoritarian breakthroughs are often just regular, predictable phases in longer-term cyclic dynamics - patronal politics. This is shown through in-depth narratives of the post-1991 political history of all post-Soviet polities that are not in the European Union. This book also includes chapters on czarist and Soviet history and on global patterns.

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