Sultanistic Regimes / Edition 1

by Houchang E. Chehabi, Juan J. Linz

Overview

Sultanistic regimes, as Juan Linz describes them, are authoritarian regimes based on personal ideology and personal favor to maintain the autocrat in power; there is little ideological basis for the rule except personal power. This volume of essays studies important sultantistic regimes in the Domanican Republic, Cuba, Haiti, Iran, and the Philippines. Part one contains two comparative essays, which discuss common characteristics of sultanistic regimes, compare them to totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, and trace common patterns for these regimes' rise and fall. Chehabi and Linz argue that sultanistic regimes do not offer favorable transitions to democracy, no matter what the person in power says. Part two applies Linz's model to country studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801856945
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date:	06/05/1998
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.63(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Houchang Chehabi is professor of international relations at Boston University. Juan J. Linz is Sterling Professor of Political Social and Science at Yale University.

Editorial Reviews

Contains papers from a June 1990 conference held at the Harvard University's Center for International Affairs. Part I offers three comparative studies on theories of sultanism, the genesis and demise of sultanistic regimes, and paths out of sultanism. Part II comprises six country studies of 20th-century regimes in the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, Iran, and the Philippines. Paper edition (unseen), $16.95. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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