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How Dictatorships Work - Power, Personalization, and Collapse (Hardcover): Barbara Geddes, Joseph Wright, Erica Frantz How Dictatorships Work - Power, Personalization, and Collapse (Hardcover)
Barbara Geddes, Joseph Wright, Erica Frantz
R2,982 Discovery Miles 29 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This accessible volume shines a light on how autocracy really works by providing basic facts about how post-World War II dictatorships achieve, retain, and lose power. The authors present an evidence-based portrait of key features of the authoritarian landscape with newly collected data about 200 dictatorial regimes. They examine the central political processes that shape the policy choices of dictatorships and how they compel reaction from policy makers in the rest of the world. Importantly, this book explains how some dictators concentrate great power in their own hands at the expense of other members of the dictatorial elite. Dictators who can monopolize decision making in their countries cause much of the erratic, warlike behavior that disturbs the rest of the world. By providing a picture of the central processes common to dictatorships, this book puts the experience of specific countries in perspective, leading to an informed understanding of events and the likely outcome of foreign responses to autocracies.

Politician's Dilemma - Building State Capacity in Latin America (Paperback, New ed): Barbara Geddes Politician's Dilemma - Building State Capacity in Latin America (Paperback, New ed)
Barbara Geddes
R825 R704 Discovery Miles 7 040 Save R121 (15%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In Latin America as elsewhere, politicians routinely face a painful dilemma: whether to use state resources for national purposes, especially those that foster economic development, or to channel resources to people and projects that will help insure political survival and reelection. While politicians may believe that a competent state bureaucracy is intrinsic to the national good, political realities invariably tempt leaders to reward powerful clients and constituents, undermining long-term competence. "Politician's Dilemma" explores the ways in which political actors deal with these contradictory pressures and asks the question: when will leaders support reforms that increase state capacity and that establish a more meritocratic and technically competent bureaucracy?
Barbara Geddes brings rational choice theory to her study of Brazil between 1930 and 1964 and shows how state agencies are made more effective when they are protected from partisan pressures and operate through merit-based recruitment and promotion strategies. Looking at administrative reform movements in other Latin American democracies, she traces the incentives offered politicians to either help or hinder the process.
In its balanced insight, wealth of detail, and analytical rigor, "Politician's Dilemma" provides a powerful key to understanding the conflicts inherent in Latin American politics, and to unlocking possibilities for real political change.

How Dictatorships Work - Power, Personalization, and Collapse (Paperback): Barbara Geddes, Joseph Wright, Erica Frantz How Dictatorships Work - Power, Personalization, and Collapse (Paperback)
Barbara Geddes, Joseph Wright, Erica Frantz
R792 R654 Discovery Miles 6 540 Save R138 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This accessible volume shines a light on how autocracy really works by providing basic facts about how post-World War II dictatorships achieve, retain, and lose power. The authors present an evidence-based portrait of key features of the authoritarian landscape with newly collected data about 200 dictatorial regimes. They examine the central political processes that shape the policy choices of dictatorships and how they compel reaction from policy makers in the rest of the world. Importantly, this book explains how some dictators concentrate great power in their own hands at the expense of other members of the dictatorial elite. Dictators who can monopolize decision making in their countries cause much of the erratic, warlike behavior that disturbs the rest of the world. By providing a picture of the central processes common to dictatorships, this book puts the experience of specific countries in perspective, leading to an informed understanding of events and the likely outcome of foreign responses to autocracies.

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