Personal rule, neopatrimonialism, and regime typologies: Integrating dahlian and weberian approaches to regime studies

Democratization

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 575-601

  Guliyev, Farid ^a  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Neopatrimonialism; Personal rule; Political regimes; State authority structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957651479     PISSN: 13510347     EISSN: 1743890X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2011.563115     Document Type: Article

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