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Sultanistic Regimes

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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.

296 pages, Paperback

First published May 13, 1998

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خوندن این کتاب واجبه؛ برای این که بفهمیم تو چه کشوری زندگی می‌کردیم (و البته زندگی می‌کنیم) و این که در گستره‌ی تاریخ معاصر کدوم کشورها تجربه‌های شبیه ما داشتند. گروه نویسندگان در یه بررسی‌ی شگفت‌انگیز نشون می‌دن که تفاوت نظام سلطانی با نظام‌های توتالیتر و پاتریمونیال چیه و این نظام‌ها در چه فرایندی ممکنه به پایان برسند و بعد از فروپاشی چه سرنوشت‌های احتمالی‌ای در انتظار مردم اون کشورها است
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