Comparing Autocracies in the Early Twenty-First Century: Vol 2: The Performance and Persistence of Autocracies

ISBN-13: 9780367739232 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 228 str.

Aurel Croissant; Steffen Kailitz; Patrick Koellner

Opis

This book explores the differences between autocracies and democracies, as well as between different forms of non-democratic regimes, in regard to their outcome performance in selected policy fields;how political institutions affect autocratic performance and persistence; whether policy performance matter for the persistence of authoritarian rul

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Comparing the performance of autocracies: issues in measuring types of autocratic regimes and performance  3. Public Policy in Autocracies and Democracies  4. The incentives for pre-electoral coalitions in non-democratic elections  5. Autocracies, democracies and the violation of civil liberties  6. Hard times and regime failure: autocratic responses to economic downturns  7. Political regime and social performance  James W. McGuire  8. Comparing ecological sustainability in autocracies and democracies  9. Property rights in dictatorships: kings protect property better than generals or party bosses  10. Accountable for what? Regime types, performance, and the fate of outgoing dictators, 1946-2004  11. External autocracy promotion? The autocracy-promoting potential of Russian and Chinese Foreign Policies

O autorze

Aurel Croissant is Professor of Political Science at the Institute of Political Science, Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg, Germany.

Steffen Kailitz is Senior Researcher at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism, Germany.

Patrick Köllner is Director of the Institute of Asian Studies (GIGA) and Professor of Political Science at Hamburg University, Germany.

Stefan Wurster is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Political Science, Ruprecht-Karls-University, Germany.