Adaptable autocrats

Stacher, Joshua, 1975-

Adaptable autocrats regime power in Egypt and Syria / [electronic resource] : Joshua Stacher. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2012. - xiv, 221 p. - Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures . - Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Debating authoritarianism -- The origins of executive authority -- Adaptation and elite co-optation -- Adaptation and nonelite co-optation -- The 2011 uprisings and the future of autocratic adaptation.


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Dictatorship--Egypt.
Dictatorship--Syria.
Authoritarianism--Egypt.
Authoritarianism--Syria.
Comparative government.


Egypt--Politics and government--1981-
Syria--Politics and government--2000-


Electronic books.

DT107.87 / .S73 2012eb

956.7104/2