Life After Dictatorship: Authoritarian Successor Parties Worldwide

ISBN-13: 9781108426671 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 424 str.

James Loxton; Scott Mainwaring

Opis

This book launches a new research agenda on one of the most common but overlooked features of the democratization experience worldwide: authoritarian successor parties.

Recenzje

'This volume represents an important contribution to the study of democratic transition and consolidation. We typically assume that successful democracies make sharp breaks from their authoritarian pasts. But James Loxton and Scott Mainwaring demonstrate conclusively that this is not the case. In fact, parties that emerge from authoritarian regimes - authoritarian successor parties - have been prominent in three quarters of third-wave democracies. Such parties have been voted back into office in over half of new democracies. While a lot has been written about individual cases in particular regions, this is the first volume to analyze this phenomenon globally. The chapters in this volume - written by the top political scientists in the world today - are path-breaking but also accessible to a broad audience inside and outside academia.' Lucan Way, University of Toronto

Spis treści

Preface James Loxton and Scott Mainwaring; Introduction: authoritarian successor Parties Worldwide James Loxton; Part I. Why Do Authoritarian Successor Parties Exist (and Often Wins Elections)?: 1. Linkage strategies of authoritarian successor parties Herbet Kitschelt and Matthew Singer; 2. Authoritarian successor parties in South Korea and Taiwan: authoritarian inheritance, organizational adaptation, and issue management T. J. Cheng and Teh-fu Huang; 3. Personalistic authoritarian successor parties in Latin America James Loxton and Steven Levitsky; Part II. What Explains Variation in Authoritarian Successor Party Performane?: 4. Victims of their own success: the paradoxical fate of the communist successor parties Anna Grzymala-Busse; 5. Authoritarian successor parties in Sub-Saharan Africa: into the wilderness and back again? Rachel Beatty Riedl; 6. The survival of authoritarian successor parties in Africa: organizational legacies or competitive landscapes? Adrienne LaBas; 7. The contrasting trajectories of Brazil's two authoritarian successor parties Timothy J. Power; Part III. What are the Effects of Authoritarian Successor Parties on Democracy?: 8. Mexico's PRI: the resilience of an authoritarian successor party and its consequences for democracy Gustavo A. Flores-Macias; 9. Game for democracy: authoritarian successor parties in developmental Asia Dan Slater and Joseph Wong; 10. Reluctant democrats: old regime conservative parties in democracy's first wave in Europe Daniel Ziblatt; Conclusion: life after democracy James Loxton.