Democracy in hard places / edited by Scott Mainwaring.

How does democracy persist for long periods of time in countries that are poor, ethnically heterogenous, wracked by economic crisis, and plagued by state weakness? In Democracy in Hard Places, leading scholars of comparative political regimes attempt to answer this question by examining cases of unl...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Oxford)
Other Authors: Masoud, Tarek E (Editor)
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Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022.
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505 0 |a Contents: List of Figures - List of Tables - Acknowledgments - Contributors - Abbreviations - 1. Introduction: Democracy in Hard Places - Tarek Masoud and Scott Mainwaring - 2. India's Democratic Longevity and Its Troubled Trajectory - Ashutosh Varshney - 3. The Politics of Permanent Pitfalls: Historical Inheritances and Indonesia's Democratic Survival - Dan Slater - 4. Africa's Democratic Outliers: Success amid Challenges in Benin and South Africa - Rachel Beatty Riedl - 5. Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine: Democratic Moments in the Former Soviet Union - Lucan Ahmad Way - 6. The Puzzle of Timor-Leste - Nancy Bermeo - 7. Economic Crises, Military Rebellions, and Democratic Survival: Argentina, 1983-2021 - Scott Mainwaring and Emilia Simison - 8. Why Democracies Survive in Hard Places - Scott Mainwaring - References - Index. 
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