Reviews
... this book is a timely contribution to the growing literature on subnational political regimes in democracies around the world, which scholars of comparative democratization, subnational politics, and local governance will find equally interesting.
... this book is a timely contribution to the growing literature on subnational political regimes in democracies around the world, which scholars of comparative democratization, subnational politics, and local governance will find equally interesting.
This creative collection forces us to recognize and rethink what subnational authoritarianism is and why it endures. Admirable in its breadth and depth, the project makes a substantive contribution to both the literature on regime change and the literature on decentralization.
Illiberal Practices makes a splendid addition to the burgeoning literature in comparative politics that zooms in on subnational actors, institutions, and processes. Through historically rich and conceptually innovative comparative studies of subnational politics, the contributors illuminate the causes and consequences of democracy’s uneven territorial extension within federal systems across the world.
Book Details
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Setting the Comparative Agenda: Territorially Uneven Democratization Processes in Large Federations
Part I: The United States and India in Historical Perspective
Chapter 2
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Setting the Comparative Agenda: Territorially Uneven Democratization Processes in Large Federations
Part I: The United States and India in Historical Perspective
Chapter 2. Federalism and Subnational Democratization in the United States: The South in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Chapter 3. Subnational Democratization in India: The Role of Colonial Competition and Central Intervention
Part II: The Diverse Origins of Illiberal Structures and Practices in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico
Chapter 4. Federal Intervention and Subnational Democratization in Argentina: A Comparative Perspective
Chapter 5. The Dimensions of Democratic and Hybrid Subnational Regimes: Evidence from an Expert Survey in Argentina
Chapter 6. Subnational Hybrid Regimes and Democratization in Brazil: Why Party Nationalization Matters
Chapter 7. The Rise and Fall of Illiberal Politics in the Brazilian State of Bahia
Chapter 8. Social Heterogeneity, Political Mediation, and Subnational Illiberalism: Oaxaca and Puebla, Mexico
Part III: Russia and the Boundaries of Democracy
Chapter 9. Subnational Democratization and Electoral Authoritarianism in Russia: From Subnational Regime Diversity to Unitary Authoritarianism
Part IV: Mapping the Cases
Chapter 10. Uneven Processes and Multiple Pathways
Contributors
Index