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ThePoliticsofAuthoritarianRule What drives politics in dictatorships? Milan W. Svolik argues that all authoritarian regimes must resolve two fundamental conflicts. First, dic- tators face threats from the masses over which they rule – this is the problem of authoritarian control. A second, separate, challenge arises fromtheeliteswithwhomdictatorsrule–thisistheproblemofauthori- tarianpower-sharing.Crucially,whetherandhowdictatorsresolvethese two problems are shaped by the dismal environment in which authori- tarianpoliticstakesplace:inadictatorship,noindependentauthorityhas thepowertoenforceagreementsamongkeyactorsandviolenceistheulti- mate arbiter of conflicts. Using the tools of game theory, Svolik explains why some dictators, like Saddam Hussein, establish personal autocracy andstayinpowerfordecades;whyleadershipchangeselsewhereareregu- larandinstitutionalized,asincontemporaryChina;whysomeauthoritar- ianregimesareruledbysoldiers,asUgandawasunderIdiAmin;whymany dictatorships, like PRI-era Mexico, maintain regime-sanctioned political parties;andwhyacountry’sauthoritarianpastcastsalongshadowoverits prospectsfordemocracy,astheunfoldingeventsoftheArabSpringreveal. When assessing his arguments, Svolik complements these and other his- toricalcasestudieswiththestatisticalanalysisofcomprehensiveoriginal dataoninstitutions,leaders,andrulingcoalitionsacrossalldictatorships from1946to2008. MilanW.SvolikisAssistantProfessorofPoliticalScienceattheUniversity ofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign.HereceivedhisPh.D.inPoliticalScience fromtheUniversityofChicago.Svolik’sarticlesonauthoritarianpolitics, transitionstodemocracy,anddemocraticconsolidationhaveappearedin leadingpoliticalsciencejournals,includingtheAmericanPoliticalScience ReviewandtheAmericanJournalofPoliticalScience.Hisresearchinter- estsincludecomparativepolitics,politicaleconomy,andformalpolitical theory. Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics GeneralEditor MargaretLevi UniversityofWashington,Seattle AssistantGeneralEditors KathleenThelen MassachusettsInstituteofTechnology ErikWibbels DukeUniversity AssociateEditors RobertH.Bates HarvardUniversity StephenHanson TheCollegeofWilliamandMary TorbenIversen HarvardUniversity StathisKalyvas YaleUniversity PeterLange DukeUniversity HelenMilner PrincetonUniversity FrancesRosenbluth YaleUniversity SusanStokes YaleUniversity OtherBooksintheSeries BenW.Ansell,FromtheBallottotheBlackboard:TheRedistributive PoliticalEconomyofEducation DavidAusten-Smith,JeffryA.Frieden,MiriamA.Golden,KarlOveMoene, andAdamPrzeworski,eds.,SelectedWorksofMichaelWallerstein:The PoliticalEconomyofInequality,Unions,andSocialDemocracy AndyBaker,TheMarketandtheMassesinLatinAmerica:PolicyReform andConsumptioninLiberalizingEconomies LisaBaldez,WhyWomenProtest:Women’sMovementsinChile StefanoBartolini,ThePoliticalMobilizationoftheEuropeanLeft, 1860–1980:TheClassCleavage RobertBates,WhenThingsFellApart:StateFailureinLate-CenturyAfrica MarkBeissinger,NationalistMobilizationandtheCollapseoftheSovietState PabloBeramendi,ThePoliticalGeographyofInequality:Regionsand Redistribution NancyBermeo,ed.,UnemploymentintheNewEurope SerieslistcontinuesfollowingtheIndex. The Politics of Authoritarian Rule MILAN W. SVOLIK UniversityofIllinois,Urbana-Champaign cambridgeuniversitypress Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown, Singapore,Sa˜oPaulo,Delhi,MexicoCity CambridgeUniversityPress 32AvenueoftheAmericas,NewYork,NY10013-2473,USA www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107607453 (cid:2)C MilanW.Svolik2012 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2012 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica AcatalogrecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationdata Svolik,MilanW.,1977– Thepoliticsofauthoritarianrule/MilanW.Svolik,UniversityofIllinois, Urbana-Champaign. pagescm.–(Cambridgestudiesincomparativepolitics) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-1-107-02479-3(hardback)–ISBN978-1-107-60745-3(paperback) 1.Authoritarianism. 2.Authoritarianism–Casestudies. I.Title. JC480.S87 2012 320.53–dc23 2012012615 ISBN978-1-107-02479-3Hardback ISBN978-1-107-60745-3Paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for externalorthird-partyInternetWebsitesreferredtointhispublicationanddoesnotguarantee thatanycontentonsuchWebsitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. Mojı´m rodicˇom, Daniele Sˇvolı´kovej a Milanovi Sˇvolı´kovi.
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