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Why Communism Did Not Collapse - Understanding Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Asia and Europe (Hardcover, New)
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Why Communism Did Not Collapse - Understanding Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Asia and Europe (Hardcover, New)
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This volume brings together a distinguished group of scholars
working to address the puzzling durability of communist autocracies
in Eastern Europe and Asia, which are the longest-lasting type of
non-democratic regime to emerge after World War I. The volume
conceptualizes the communist universe as consisting of the ten
regimes in Eastern Europe and Mongolia that eventually collapsed in
1989-91, and the five regimes that survived the fall of the Berlin
Wall: China, Vietnam, Laos, North Korea and Cuba. The essays offer
a theoretical argument that emphasizes the importance of
institutional adaptations as a foundation of communist resilience.
In particular, the contributors focus on four adaptations: of the
economy, of ideology, of the mechanisms for inclusion of potential
rivals, and of the institutions of vertical and horizontal
accountability. The volume argues that when regimes are no longer
able to implement adaptive change, contingent leadership choices
and contagion dynamics make collapse more likely.
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