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Weapons of the Wealthy : Predatory Regimes and Elite-Led Protests in Central Asia.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (249 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801466175
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Weapons of the WealthyDDC classification:
  • 958.4308/6
LOC classification:
  • DK918
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction: Puzzles of People Power -- 1. Institutional Uncertainty and Elite-Led Mobilization -- 2. The View from Below: Communities as Sites for Collective Action -- 3. The View from Above: State Influences on Elite Opportunities -- 4. Linkages across Classes: The Development of Subversive Clientelism -- 5. Mobilization in Rural Kyrgyzstan -- 6. Elite Networks and the Tulip Revolution -- 7. Assessing the Dynamics of Mobilization in Diverse Contexts -- Conclusion: Political Economies, Hybrid Regimes, and Challenges to Democratization -- Methodological Appendix -- Index.
Summary: Focusing on the region of post-Soviet Central Asia, Radnitz investigates the causes of elite-led protest in nondemocratic states, where economic and political opportunities create elites who are independent of the regime, yet vulnerable to harassment.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction: Puzzles of People Power -- 1. Institutional Uncertainty and Elite-Led Mobilization -- 2. The View from Below: Communities as Sites for Collective Action -- 3. The View from Above: State Influences on Elite Opportunities -- 4. Linkages across Classes: The Development of Subversive Clientelism -- 5. Mobilization in Rural Kyrgyzstan -- 6. Elite Networks and the Tulip Revolution -- 7. Assessing the Dynamics of Mobilization in Diverse Contexts -- Conclusion: Political Economies, Hybrid Regimes, and Challenges to Democratization -- Methodological Appendix -- Index.

Focusing on the region of post-Soviet Central Asia, Radnitz investigates the causes of elite-led protest in nondemocratic states, where economic and political opportunities create elites who are independent of the regime, yet vulnerable to harassment.

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