Political Institutions under Dictatorship

Political Institutions under Dictatorship
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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ISBN-10 : 0521155711
ISBN-13 : 9780521155717
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Book Synopsis Political Institutions under Dictatorship by : Jennifer Gandhi

Download or read book Political Institutions under Dictatorship written by Jennifer Gandhi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often dismissed as window-dressing, nominally democratic institutions, such as legislatures and political parties, play an important role in non-democratic regimes. In a comprehensive cross-national study of all non-democratic states from 1946 to 2002 that examines the political uses of these institutions by dictators, Gandhi finds that legislative and partisan institutions are an important component in the operation and survival of authoritarian regimes. She examines how and why these institutions are useful to dictatorships in maintaining power, analyzing the way dictators utilize institutions as a forum in which to organize political concessions to potential opposition in an effort to neutralize threats to their power and to solicit cooperation from groups outside of the ruling elite. The use of legislatures and parties to co-opt opposition results in significant institutional effects on policies and outcomes under dictatorship.


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