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Response to Slater review ofCompetitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2011

Steven Levitsky  and
Lucan A. Way
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Dan Slater offers thoughtful and incisive comments. We respond here to three of his points. The first is that by limiting our study to the post–Cold War period, we convert it into a “period piece,” akin to studies of fascist and communist regimes. Although this may be true, a historically bounded analysis is essential because of the changing character of the international environment. World historical time powerfully shapes regime outcomes. The prospects for democracy and authoritarianism during the Cold War, which was marked by global superpower rivalry, differed dramatically from those during periods of Western liberal hegemony. During the Cold War, for example, nearly all military coups ushered in authoritarian rule; after 1989, nearly 70 percent of coups led to multiparty elections In 1989, single-party rule predominated in Eastern Europe and sub-Saharan Africa; five years later, it had disappeared.

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Critical Dialogue
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Perspectives on Politics , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , June 2011 , pp. 388 - 389
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2011

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