Thieves, Opportunists, and Autocrats

ISBN-13: 9780197697764 / Twarda / 2023 / 320 str.

Lehigh University) Duvanova Professor Dinissa (Professor

Recenzje

Thieves, Opportunities and Autocrats is a fascinating and extremely well-researched study of how authoritarian elites use very modern bureaucratic techniques for the purposes of control and co-optation. Duvanova provides more evidence that the neoliberal model of bureaucracy, which has spread across the world in recent decades, is entirely compatible with authoritarian rule. The book is a must-read for anyone working on public policy or comparative political economy of non-democracies.

O autorze

Dinissa Duvanova is Associate Professor in International Relations at Lehigh University. Her research focuses on the political economy, bureaucratic politics, and technology-enabled forms of political participation in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. Her publications appear in British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, Journal of Comparative Economics and World Development and other journals. Her book Building Business in Post-Communist Russia, Eastern Europe and Eurasia: Collective Goods, Selective Incentives, and Predatory States (Cambridge University Press, February 2013) was awarded the Ed A. Hewett Prize for outstanding publication on the political economy of Russia, Eurasia and/or Eastern Europe.