The Politics of Protest in Hybrid Regimes: Managing Dissent in Post-Communist Russia

by Graeme B. Robertson

Book Overview

Since the end of the Cold War, more and more countries feature political regimes that are neither liberal democracies nor closed authoritarian systems. Most research on these hybrid regimes focuses on how elites manipulate elections to stay in office, but in places as diverse as Bolivia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Serbia, Thailand, Ukraine and Venezuela, protest in the streets has been at least as important as elections in bringing about political change...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521118751
• ISBN13: 9780521118750
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.3"