TY - BOOK AU - Haggard,Stephan AU - Kaufman,Robert R. AU - Teo,Terence TI - Dictators and Democrats: Masses, Elites, and Regime Change SN - 9780691172149 AV - JC421 U1 - 321.80904 23 PY - 2016///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Authoritarianism KW - History KW - 20th century KW - 21st century KW - Democratization KW - New democracies KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political ideologies / Democracy KW - bisacsh KW - Third Wave KW - authoritarian regimes KW - autocracy KW - backsliding KW - class structure KW - collective action KW - coup KW - coups KW - democracy KW - democratic transitions KW - democratization KW - distributive conflict theories KW - distributive conflict KW - distributive conflicts KW - domestic politics KW - economic aid KW - economic crisis KW - economic development KW - economic performance KW - elite-led transitions KW - elite-reaction reversions KW - elites KW - ethnonationalist organizations KW - inequality KW - institutional strength KW - institutional weakness KW - institutions KW - international factors KW - leverage KW - linkage KW - low-income countries KW - mass mobilization KW - middle-income countries KW - military intervention KW - political entrepreneurs KW - political parties KW - populist reversions KW - praetorianism KW - regime change KW - repression KW - reverters KW - social organizations KW - survivors KW - transition paths KW - transitional elections KW - unions KW - weak democracy N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; List of Tables --; Preface and Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Regime Change during the Third Wave: From Dictatorship to Democracy and Back --; Part I: Inequality and Transitions to Democracy --; Chapter 1 Inequality and Transitions to Democracy --; Part II: Pathways to Democracy --; Chapter 2 Modeling Democratic Transitions: Distributive Conflict and Elite Processes --; Chapter 3 Distributive Conflict Transitions: Institutions and Collective Action --; Chapter 4 Elite- Led Transitions: International Factors and Politics at the Top --; Chapter 5 Transition Paths and the Quality of Democracy --; Part III: Reversions from Democratic Rule --; Chapter 6 Inequality, Development, and the Weak Democracy Syndrome --; Chapter 7 Pathways to Authoritarian Rule --; Chapter 8 Learning from Anomalies: Low- Income Survivors, Middle- Income Reverters --; Conclusion: Whither Democracy? --; References --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - From the 1980s through the first decade of the twenty-first century, the spread of democracy across the developing and post-Communist worlds transformed the global political landscape. What drove these changes and what determined whether the emerging democracies would stabilize or revert to authoritarian rule? Dictators and Democrats takes a comprehensive look at the transitions to and from democracy in recent decades. Deploying both statistical and qualitative analysis, Stephen Haggard and Robert Kaufman engage with theories of democratic change and advocate approaches that emphasize political and institutional factors. While inequality has been a prominent explanation for democratic transitions, the authors argue that its role has been limited, and elites as well as masses can drive regime change.Examining seventy-eight cases of democratic transition and twenty-five reversions since 1980, Haggard and Kaufman show how differences in authoritarian regimes and organizational capabilities shape popular protest and elite initiatives in transitions to democracy, and how institutional weaknesses cause some democracies to fail. The determinants of democracy lie in the strength of existing institutions and the public's capacity to engage in collective action. There are multiple routes to democracy, but those growing out of mass mobilization may provide more checks on incumbents than those emerging from intra-elite bargains.Moving beyond well-known beliefs regarding regime changes, Dictators and Democrats explores the conditions under which transitions to democracy are likely to arise UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400882984?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400882984 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400882984.jpg ER -