1st Edition
Personalist Rule in Africa and Other World Regions
Introduction
1. A Throne of Bayonets: What is Personalism and Why Does it Matter?
2. Fear and Greed: Four Pillars of Personalist Regime Behavior
3. Framing The Vicious Circle: Modeling Transitions from Personalist Rule
4. Divide and Rule: Testing the Relational Aspects of the Model
5. Resource Curses: Testing the Functional Aspects of the Model
6. Votes and Violence: Testing the Dysfunctional Aspects of the Model
7. Findings on the Impact of Personalist Rule: Comparing African Cases and Structuring Causal Factors
8. Findings on Vicious Circles: Comparing Post-Personalist Transitions
9. Lessons From Africa: Personalism in Comparative Perspective
Summary and Final Thoughts
Biography
Jeroen J.J. Van den Bosch is an independent researcher working on dictatorships and is affiliated with Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, as a project coordinator.
