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Author Meng, Anne, 1987- author.

Title Constraining dictatorship : from personalized rule to institutionalized regimes / Anne Meng
Published Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (xix, 256 pages) : illustrations
Series Political economy of institutions and decisions
Political economy of institutions and decisions.
Contents Why do leaders institutionalize? -- Two illustrative cases -- How should institutionalization be measured? -- What are the causes of regime institutionalization? -- What are the consequences of institutionalization on autocratic stability? -- What are the consequences of institutionalization on leadership succession?
Summary How do some dictatorships become institutionalized ruled-based systems, while others remain heavily personalist? Once implemented, do executive constraints actually play an effective role in promoting autocratic stability? To understand patterns of regime institutionalization, this book studies the emergence of constitutional term limits and succession procedures, as well as elite power-sharing within presidential cabinets. Anne Meng argues that institutions credibly constrain leaders only when they change the underlying distribution of power between leaders and elites by providing elites with access to the state. She also shows that initially weak leaders who institutionalize are less likely to face coup attempts and are able to remain in office for longer periods than weak leaders who do not. Drawing on an original time-series dataset of 46 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa from 1960 to 2010, formal theory, and case studies, this book ultimately illustrates how some dictatorships evolve from personalist strongman rule to institutionalized regimes
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 24, 2020)
Subject Dictatorship -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Public institutions -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Personality and politics -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Personalism.
Elite (Social sciences) -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Power (Social sciences) -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Dictatorship
Elite (Social sciences)
Personalism
Personality and politics
Politics and government
Power (Social sciences)
Public institutions
SUBJECT Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Politics and government -- 1960- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001684
Subject Sub-Saharan Africa
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020026424
ISBN 9781108877497
1108877494
1108834892
9781108834896
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9781108792479