Investing in Authoritarian Rule
Title | Investing in Authoritarian Rule PDF eBook |
Author | Anuradha Chakravarty |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 389 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107084083 |
This book shows how Rwanda's mass courts for genocide crimes helped ensure political stability and authoritarian control for Rwandan elites.
Investing in Authoritarian Rule
Title | Investing in Authoritarian Rule PDF eBook |
Author | Anuradha Chakravarty |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | LAW |
ISBN | 9781316032121 |
Investing in Authoritarian Rule
Title | Investing in Authoritarian Rule PDF eBook |
Author | Anuradha Chakravarty |
Publisher | |
Pages | 367 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Authoritarianism |
ISBN | 9781316031643 |
Open Networks, Closed Regimes
Title | Open Networks, Closed Regimes PDF eBook |
Author | Shanthi Kalathil |
Publisher | Carnegie Endowment |
Pages | 235 |
Release | 2010-11 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 087003331X |
As the Internet diffuses across the globe, many have come to believe that the technology poses an insurmountable threat to authoritarian rule. Grounded in the Internet's early libertarian culture and predicated on anecdotes pulled from diverse political climates, this conventional wisdom has informed the views of policymakers, business leaders, and media pundits alike. Yet few studies have sought to systematically analyze the exact ways in which Internet use may lay the basis for political change. In O pen Networks, Closed Regimes, the authors take a comprehensive look at how a broad range of societal and political actors in eight authoritarian and semi-authoritarian countries employ the Internet. Based on methodical assessment of evidence from these cases—China, Cuba, Singapore, Vietnam, Burma, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt—the study contends that the Internet is not necessarily a threat to authoritarian regimes.
Foreign Direct Investment and Authoritarian Regimes
Title | Foreign Direct Investment and Authoritarian Regimes PDF eBook |
Author | Omar Awapara |
Publisher | |
Pages | 86 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | |
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Recent work on foreign direct investment has emphasized the weight of political factors in explaining variation across countries. While the aspects of democracies that make them more or less favorable to FDI have been studied and identified, we know less about what differentiates investment levels among authoritarian regimes. In this paper, I seek to unpack variation in FDI flows among such regimes by distinguishing different types of autocracies. I argue that regimes convey different signals regarding political risk to potential foreign investors via both institutional attributes and forms of exercising authority. Specifically, I expect regimes ruled by a collective body, such as military and single-party regimes, to be less volatile and more predictable in their decision-making due to the presence of several actors with veto power. In addition, I also expect regimes with predictable succession rules to transmit lower levels of risk to foreign investors due to the smaller probability of a destabilizing process of leadership turnover. I test these expectations using a time-series cross-sectional data set containing economic, political, and social information from 104 countries over the period 1980-2010, and find support for the veto hypothesis but not for the leadership succession one.
Do Investors Punish Authoritarianism?
Title | Do Investors Punish Authoritarianism? PDF eBook |
Author | Sonja Maria Hämmer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Constitutions in Authoritarian Regimes
Title | Constitutions in Authoritarian Regimes PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Ginsburg |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 283 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1107047668 |
This volume explores the form and function of constitutions in countries without the fully articulated institutions of limited government.