Sultanistic regimes

• David Nicholls
• H.E. Chehabi
• Juan J. Linz
• Harvard University
• John A. Booth
• Jorge I. Domínguez
• Jonathan Hartlyn
• Homa Katouzian
• Richard Snyder
• Mark R. Thompson

Fra forlagets omtale: 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.