Sultanistic regimes, as Juan Linz describes them, are authoritarian regimes based on personal ideology and personal favor to maintain the autocrat in power; there is little ideological basis for the rule except personal power. This volume of essays studies important sultantistic regimes in the Domanican Republic, Cuba, Haiti, Iran, and the Philippines. Part one contains two comparative essays, which discuss common characteristics of sultanistic regimes, compare them to totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, and trace common patterns for these regimes' rise and fall. Chehabi and Linz argue that sultanistic regimes do not offer favorable transitions to democracy, no matter what the person in power says. Part two applies Linz's model to country studies.
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Houchang Chehabi is professor of international relations at Boston University. Juan J. Linz is Sterling Professor of Political Social and Science at Yale University.
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Some insights into a peculiar form of non-democratic regimes,
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While there's quite a lot written about party and military regimes, there's not as much on personalist regimes. Sultanistic Regimes attempts to remedy that, at least for the extreme form of "sultanistic" personalist regimes. The book is split into a theoretical section and case studies. The theoretical section does a pretty good job at generalizing essential features of sultanistic regimes and providing reasons for their rise and fall. The case studies also incorporate theoretical elements in their discussion of particular countries, rather than simply rehash each leader's abuses. Overall, this is a useful reference for students of non-democratic regimes.
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Some insights into a peculiar form of non-democratic regimes,
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While there's quite a lot written about party and military regimes, there's not as much on personalist regimes. Sultanistic Regimes attempts to remedy that, at least for the extreme form of "sultanistic" personalist regimes. The book is split into a theoretical section and case studies. The theoretical section does a pretty good job at generalizing essential features of sultanistic regimes and providing reasons for their rise and fall. The case studies also incorporate theoretical elements in their discussion of particular countries, rather than simply rehash each leader's abuses. Overall, this is a useful reference for students of non-democratic regimes.
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