Adaptable autocrats
Subtitle: regime power in Egypt and Syria
By: Joshua Stacher
Series: Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures; Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780804780629; 9780804780636
Subjects: Politics and government; Authoritarianism; Comparative government; Dictatorship
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Debating authoritarianism; title: The origins of executive authority; title: Adaptation and elite co-optation; title: Adaptation and nonelite co-optation; title: The 2011 uprisings and the future of autocratic adaptation.