TY  - BOOK
AU  - Levitsky, Steven; 
AU  - Levitsky, Steven;
AU  -  Way, Lucan
TI  - Competitive authoritarianism : : hybrid regimes after the Cold War
T2  - Problems of international politics
SN  - 9780521709156
U1  - 321.9 LEV 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Cambridge, New York 
PB  - :Cambridge University Press
KW  - Political Science
KW  - Systems of governments & states
KW  - Authoritarianism -- Case studies
KW  - Political development -- Case studies
KW  - Authoritarianism
KW  - Autoritärer Staat
KW  - Democratization -- Case studies
KW  - Politischer Wandel
KW  - Politische Stabilität
N1  - Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Acronyms and Abbreviations; I Introduction and Theory; II High Linkage and Democratization: Eastern Europe and the Americas; III The Dynamics of Competitive Authoritarianism in Low-Linkage Regions: The Former Soviet Union, Africa, and Asia; Appendix I: Measuring Competitive Authoritarianism and Authoritarian Stability; Appendix II: Measuring Leverage; Appendix III: Measuring Linkage; Appendix IV: Measuring Organizational Power; References; Index

N2  - "Competitive authoritarian regimes - in which autocrats submit to meaningful multiparty elections but engage in serious democratic abuse - proliferated in the post-Cold War era. Based on a detailed study of 35 cases in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and post-communist Eurasia, this book explores the fate of competitive authoritarian regimes between 1990 and 2008. It finds that where social, economic, and technocratic ties to the West were extensive, as in Eastern Europe and the Americas, the external cost of abuse led incumbents to cede power rather than crack down, which led to democratization. Where ties to the West were limited, external democratizing pressure was weaker and countries rarely democratized. In these cases, regime outcomes hinged on the character of state and ruling party organizations. Where incumbents possessed developed and cohesive coercive party structures, they could thwart opposition challenges, and competitive authoritarian regimes survived; where incumbents lacked such organizational tools, regimes were unstable but rarely democratized"
ER  -