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4 - Power Concentration

The Effect of Elite Factionalism on Personalization

from Part II - Elite Consolidation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 August 2018

Barbara Geddes ,
Joseph Wright  and
Erica Frantz
Barbara Geddes
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles
Joseph Wright
Affiliation:
Pennsylvania State University
Erica Frantz
Affiliation:
Michigan State University
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Summary

All members of the inner circles of dictatorships have common interests in regime survival but compete with one another over power and resources. Dictators try to concentrate power and resources in their own hands in order to increase their security at the top. Other members of the inner circle
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How Dictatorships Work
Power, Personalization, and Collapse
 , pp. 61 - 94
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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