Personalist Rule in Africa and Other World Regions, 1st Edition

.\nThis book presents an innovative model linking insights from democratization, development and conflict studies to explain personalist behavior and their violent transitions. Based on multiple case studies from Sub Saharan Africa, the author maps and predicts regime transitions, presenting examples of how states can avoid such vicious circles of conflict and tyranny. By integrating decades of specialist literature from various subfields of political science, the book models personalist behavior, its impact on the states they govern, and their future transitions. By systematizing regime behavior (coup-proofing, gatekeeping, repression and hoarding), the model identifies the mechanics on how personalist regimes establish vicious circles of personalism and explains how exactly they end up again in authoritarianism or in new personalist tyrannies after their demise, and so seldom transition to democracy. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of African politics, democratization and democratic consolidation, authoritarian rule and more broadly to political science, comparative politics, area studies, political leadership, peace and conflict studies and development studies.\nPersonalist Rule in Africa and Other World Regions 1st Edition is written by Jeroen J.J. Van den Bosch and published by Routledge. ISBNs for Personalist Rule in Africa and Other World Regions are 9781000377118, 1000377113 and the print ISBNs are 9780367510992, 0367510995. Additional ISBNs include 9781003057949, 9780367510954, 9781000377071.