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What Everyone Needs to Know®
Despite the spread of democratization following the Cold War's end, all signs indicate that we are living through an era of resurgent authoritarianism...
Understanding Authoritarian Regimes and Their Leaders
Dictators and Dictatorships is a qualitative enquiry into the politics of authoritarian regimes. It argues that political outcomes in dictatorships ar...
Understanding Instability and Poverty in the Developing World
What do we mean by failed states and why is this concept important to study? The “failed states” literature is important because it aims to unders...
Power, Personalization, and Collapse
Explains how dictatorships rise, survive, and fall, along with why some but not all dictators wield vast powers....
The only introduction to cover the full spectrum of political systems, from democracy to dictatorship and the growing number of systems that fall betw...
Tackling the Challenges facing the Developing World
Development and the State in the 21st Century provides a comprehensive analysis of the state's role in contemporary development. The book examines the...
How Personalist Parties Destroy Democracy from Within
Since the end of World War II, democracies typically fell apart by coup d'?tat or through force. Today, however, they are increasingly eroding at the ...
Institutions and Outcomes in Authoritarian Regimes
In comparison to democratic political systems, we know very little about how dictatorships work. Who are the key political actors? Where does the locu...
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Survival, the bi-monthly publication from The International Institute for Strategic Studies, is a leading forum for analysis and debate of internation...