TY  - BOOK
AU  - Svolik, Milan W. 
TI  - The Politics of authoritarian rule
SN  - 9781107607453
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York 
PB  - Cambridge University Press 
N2  - What drives politics in dictatorships? Milan W. Svolik argues that all authoritarian regimes must resolve two fundamental conflicts. First, dictators face threats from the masses over which they rule - this is the problem of authoritarian control. A second, separate challenge arises from the elites with whom dictators rule - this is the problem of authoritarian power-sharing. Crucially, whether and how dictators resolve these two problems is shaped by the dismal environment in which authoritarian politics takes place: in a dictatorship, no independent authority has the power to enforce agreements among key actors and violence is the ultimate arbiter of conflict.
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