1st Edition
Comparing autocracies in the early Twenty-first Century Vol 2: The Performance and Persistence of Autocracies
1. Introduction 2. Comparing the performance of autocracies: issues in measuring types of autocratic regimes and performance 3. Public Policy in Autocracies and Democracies 4. The incentives for pre-electoral coalitions in non-democratic elections 5. Autocracies, democracies and the violation of civil liberties 6. Hard times and regime failure: autocratic responses to economic downturns 7. Political regime and social performance James W. McGuire 8. Comparing ecological sustainability in autocracies and democracies 9. Property rights in dictatorships: kings protect property better than generals or party bosses 10. Accountable for what? Regime types, performance, and the fate of outgoing dictators, 1946-2004 11. External autocracy promotion? The autocracy-promoting potential of Russian and Chinese Foreign Policies
Biography
Aurel Croissant is Professor of Political Science at the Institute of Political Science, Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg, Germany.
Steffen Kailitz is Senior Researcher at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism, Germany.
Patrick Köllner is Director of the Institute of Asian Studies (GIGA) and Professor of Political Science at Hamburg University, Germany.
Stefan Wurster is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Political Science, Ruprecht-Karls-University, Germany.
