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Personalism and Personalist Regimes offers a systematic examination of the logic of personalism, or personalist rule, tackling comprehensively the study of personalist leaders and personalist regimes.
List of contents
- 1: Alexander Baturo, Luca Anceschi, and Francesco Cavatorta: Introduction: Personalism and Personalist Regimes
- Section 1 - Personalism: Theoretical Approaches and Historical Context
- 2: Alexander Baturo: Personalist Regimes: A Product of Personalism and Patrimonialism
- 3: Natasha Lindstaedt: Personalist Regimes in Historical Context: The Somoza, Duvalier, and Marcos Regimes in Nicaragua, Haiti, and The Philippines
- 4: Graeme Gill: Personal Rule in Party Regimes: The Soviet Union, China, and North Korea
- Section 2 - Contemporary Personalism
- 5: Koray Saglam: Personalism in Turkey under Erdo?an
- 6: Ignacio Arana Araya: The Chavismo Regime in Venezuela
- 7: Nikolai Petrov: The Putin Regime in Russia
- 8: Matthew Frear: The Lukashenko Regime in Belarus
- Section 3- Personalism, Succession, Institutions
- 9: Luca Anceschi: Personalist Rule and Regime Continuity in Central Asia
- 10: Marie Brossier: Succession in Personalist Regimes in Africa: Dynastic Options in Gabon and Togo
- 11: Junyan Jiang: Man versus Machine: Personal Power and Political Organizations in the Chinese Communist Party
- 12: Amir Magdy Kamel: The Gaddafi Regime in Libya
- 13: Bert Hoffmann: Cuba after Charisma: Personalism and its Exit Options
- 14: Alexander Baturo, Luca Anceschi, and Francesco Cavatorta: On 'New' and 'Old' Personal Rule: Concluding Remarks
About the author
Alexander Baturo is Associate Professor of Government at Dublin City University. He studies democratization and authoritarian politics, in particular personalism and the breakdown of term limits. This is his fourth book on the subject, following Democracy, Dictatorship, and Term Limits (Michigan University Press, 2014), The Politics of Presidential Term Limits (Oxford University Press, 2019) and The New Kremlinology: Understanding Regime Personalization in Russia (Oxford University Press, 2021).
Luca Anceschi is Professor of Eurasian Studies at the University of Glasgow, where he is also the editor of Europe-Asia Studies. His research is focused on the politics and international relations of Central Asia. His most recent book is Analysing Kazakhstan's Foreign Policy. Regime neo-Eurasianism in the Nazarbaev Era (Routledge 2020).
Francesco Cavatorta is Professor of Political Science and Research Fellow at the Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche sur l'Afrique et le Moyen Orient (CIRAM), Laval University (Quebec, Canada). He has published extensively on the politics of the Arab world. His current research project is focused on party politics and the role of political parties in the region.
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Personalism and Personalist Regimes offers a systematic examination of the logic of personalism, or personalist rule, tackling comprehensively the study of personalist leaders and personalist regimes.
