Personalist Rule in Africa and Other World Regions
Jeroen J. J. Van den Bosch, "Personalist Rule in Africa and Other World Regions "
English | ISBN: 0367510952 | 2021 | 324 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 0367510952 | 2021 | 324 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
This book presents an innovative model linking insights from democratization, development and conflict studies to explain personalist behavior and their violent transitions.
Based on multiple case studies from Sub Saharan Africa, the author maps and predicts regime transitions, presenting examples of how states can avoid such vicious circles of conflict and tyranny. By integrating decades of specialist literature from various subfields of political science, the book models personalist behavior, its impact on the states they govern, and their future transitions. By systematizing regime behavior (coup-proofing, gatekeeping, repression and hoarding), the model identifies the mechanics on how personalist regimes establish vicious circles of personalism and explains how exactly they end up again in authoritarianism or in new personalist tyrannies after their demise, and so seldom transition to democracy.
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