The Politics of Corruption in Dictatorships

The Politics of Corruption in Dictatorships
Author: Vineeta Yadav
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2016
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1107083230

This book analyzes why some dictators find it in their self-interest to curb corruption.

Corruption Control in Authoritarian Regimes

Corruption Control in Authoritarian Regimes
Author: Christopher Carothers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2022-04-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1316513289

Reveals how meaningful corruption control by authoritarian regimes is surprisingly common and follows a different playbook than democratic anti-corruption reform.

How Dictatorships Work

How Dictatorships Work
Author: Barbara Geddes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2018-08-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1107115825

Explains how dictatorships rise, survive, and fall, along with why some but not all dictators wield vast powers.

Bribery and Corruption in Weak Institutional Environments

Bribery and Corruption in Weak Institutional Environments
Author: Shaomin Li
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2019-05-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108492894

Drawing on global empirical evidence, Li offers a novel explanation to the age-old puzzle of why some countries thrive despite corruption.

Political Institutions under Dictatorship

Political Institutions under Dictatorship
Author: Jennifer Gandhi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-07-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780521155717

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.

The Dictator's Handbook

The Dictator's Handbook
Author: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Publisher: Public Affairs
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2011-09-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 161039044X

Explains the theory of political survival, particularly in cases of dictators and despotic governments, arguing that political leaders seek to stay in power using any means necessary, most commonly by attending to the interests of certain coalitions.

Dictators Without Borders

Dictators Without Borders
Author: Alexander A. Cooley
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2017-02-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0300222092

A penetrating look into the unrecognized and unregulated links between autocratic regimes in Central Asia and centers of power and wealth throughout the West Weak, corrupt, and politically unstable, the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan are dismissed as isolated and irrelevant to the outside world. But are they? This hard-hitting book argues that Central Asia is in reality a globalization leader with extensive involvement in economics, politics and security dynamics beyond its borders. Yet Central Asia’s international activities are mostly hidden from view, with disturbing implications for world security. Based on years of research and involvement in the region, Alexander Cooley and John Heathershaw reveal how business networks, elite bank accounts, overseas courts, third-party brokers, and Western lawyers connect Central Asia’s supposedly isolated leaders with global power centers. The authors also uncover widespread Western participation in money laundering, bribery, foreign lobbying by autocratic governments, and the exploiting of legal loopholes within Central Asia. Riveting and important, this book exposes the global connections of a troubled region that must no longer be ignored.

Democracies and Dictatorships in Latin America

Democracies and Dictatorships in Latin America
Author: Scott Mainwaring
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2014-01-31
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1107433630

This book presents a new theory for why political regimes emerge, and why they subsequently survive or break down. It then analyzes the emergence, survival and fall of democracies and dictatorships in Latin America since 1900. Scott Mainwaring and Aníbal Pérez-Liñán argue for a theoretical approach situated between long-term structural and cultural explanations and short-term explanations that look at the decisions of specific leaders. They focus on the political preferences of powerful actors - the degree to which they embrace democracy as an intrinsically desirable end and their policy radicalism - to explain regime outcomes. They also demonstrate that transnational forces and influences are crucial to understand regional waves of democratization. Based on extensive research into the political histories of all twenty Latin American countries, this book offers the first extended analysis of regime emergence, survival and failure for all of Latin America over a long period of time.

The Oxford Handbook of Social and Political Trust

The Oxford Handbook of Social and Political Trust
Author: Eric M. Uslaner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 753
Release: 2018-01-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0190274816

This volume explores the foundations of trust, and whether social and political trust have common roots. Contributions by noted scholars examine how we measure trust, the cultural and social psychological roots of trust, the foundations of political trust, and how trust concerns the law, the economy, elections, international relations, corruption, and cooperation, among myriad societal factors. The rich assortment of essays on these themes addresses questions such as: How does national identity shape trust, and how does trust form in developing countries and in new democracies? Are minority groups less trusting than the dominant group in a society? Do immigrants adapt to the trust levels of their host countries? Does group interaction build trust? Does the welfare state promote trust and, in turn, does trust lead to greater well-being and to better health outcomes? The Oxford Handbook of Social and Political Trust considers these and other questions of critical importance for current scholarly investigations of trust.