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How Dictatorships Work: Power, Personalization, and Collapse

Barbara Geddes; Joseph Wright; Erica Frantz · Cambridge University Press · 2018

Type: Book
Author: Barbara Geddes; Joseph Wright; Erica Frantz
Identifier: DOI 10.1017/9781316336182

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TheoryGeddes (1999) argued that single-party regimes are the most resilient type of dictatorship, military regimes the least, and personalist regimes in between, because each type's elite has different interests when facing crises.EstablishedIn How Dictatorships Work (2018), Geddes, Wright and Frantz analyse how dictatorships seize power, how dictators share or concentrate power within the ruling group, and how regimes collapse.TheoryComparative research finds that personalist dictatorships are more likely than party-based or military regimes to end violently or to be replaced by another autocracy, and less likely to democratise.TheoryMilitary regimes have on average been the shortest-lived type of dictatorship since 1946, and are more likely than other types to negotiate their exit when the officer corps splits, because officers value the unity of the armed forces over holding office.