| Physical description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 323 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Series |
Routledge studies in African politics and international relations |
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Routledge studies on African politics and international relations.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- A Throne of Bayonets -- What is Personalism and Why Does it Matter? -- Fear & Greed -- Four Pillars of Personalist Regime Behavior -- Framing The Vicious Circle -- Modeling Transitions from Personalist Rule -- Divide & Rule -- Testing the Relational Aspects of the Model -- Resource Curses -- Testing the Functional Aspects of the Model -- Votes & violence -- Testing the Dysfunctional Aspects of the Model -- Findings on the Impact of Personalist Rule -- Comparing African Cases and Structuring Causal Factors -- Findings on Vicious Circles -- Comparing Post-Personalist Transitions -- Lessons From Africa -- Personalism in Comparative Perspective -- Summary and Final Thoughts. |
| Summary |
"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. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of African politics, democratization and democratic consolidation, authoritarian rule and more broadly to political science, comparative politics, area studies, political leadership, peace and conflict studies and development studies"-- Provided by publisher |
| History notes |
Jeroen J.J. Van den Bosch is an independent researcher working on dictatorships and is affiliated with Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, as a project coordinator. |
| Subject |
Dictatorship -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
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Political leadership -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
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Political culture -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
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Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Politics and government.
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| ISBN |
9781003057949 electronic book |
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1003057942 electronic book |
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9781000377071 electronic book |
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1000377075 electronic book |
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9781000377118 electronic book |
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1000377113 electronic book |
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9780367510954 hardcover |
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0367510952 |
| Standard Number |
10.4324/9781003057949 |
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