Personalist Rule in Africa and Other World Regions

ISBN-13: 9780367510954 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 324 str.

Jeroen J. J. Van Den Bosch

Opis

This book presents an innovative model linking insights from democratization, development and conflict studies to explain personalist behavior and their violent transitions.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. A Throne of Bayonets: What is Personalism and Why Does it Matter?  2. Fear and Greed: Four Pillars of Personalist Regime Behavior  3. Framing The Vicious Circle: Modeling Transitions from Personalist Rule  4. Divide and Rule: Testing the Relational Aspects of the Model  5. Resource Curses: Testing the Functional Aspects of the Model  6. Votes and Violence: Testing the Dysfunctional Aspects of the Model  7. Findings on the Impact of Personalist Rule: Comparing African Cases and Structuring Causal Factors  8. Findings on Vicious Circles: Comparing Post-Personalist Transitions  9. Lessons From Africa: Personalism in Comparative Perspective.  Summary and Final Thoughts

O autorze

Jeroen J.J. Van den Bosch is an independent researcher working on dictatorships and is affiliated with Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, as a project coordinator.