Download the draft syllabus for the course below:
Find the PowerPoint presentations (containing every table and figure from the book and summaries of the text), divided up for the 11 lectures, below:
- Current approaches. Trapped in the language of democratization
- Stubborn structures. An explanation of the development of post-communist regimes
- Basic concepts. Informality, patronalism, and the types of state
- Ruling elites. The adopted political family as a sui generis form in patronal regimes
- Politics of stability. Public deliberation and the ways it is neutralized
- Politics of instability. Defensive mechanisms, color revolutions, and the forms of reversing autocratic change
- Relational economics. Forms of corruption and state intervention
- Comparative economic systems. How do Russia and China work
- “The people.” Clientage society and populism as an ideological instrument
- Regime trajectories
- Country-, policy-, and era-specific features
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