Lucan Way: 2 books
Pluralism by Default
Weak Autocrats and the Rise of Competitive Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Pluralism by Default explores sources of political contestation in the former Soviet Union and beyond. Lucan Way proposes that pluralism in "new democracies" is often grounded less in democratic leadership or emerging civil society and more in the failure of authoritarianism. Dynamic competition...
Competitive Authoritarianism
Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Based on a detailed study of 35 cases in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and post-communist Eurasia, this book explores the fate of competitive authoritarian regimes between 1990 and 2008. It finds that where social, economic, and technocratic ties to the West were extensive, as in Eastern Europe and...