http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
patronage norms, family overreach, and political crisis in Kazakhstan and beyond
1 online resource (xiii, 203 pages) : illustrations
"This book analyzes patronage conflicts pitting presidential family members against other elite groupings in a series of personalist authoritarian regimes, beginning with Kazakhstan in the early 2000s"--
Introduction : Family Overreach and the Varied Fates of Personalist Presidents -- Patronage as a Normative Institution -- Nazarbayev Family Overreach and Presidential Resilience, 2001-2002 and 2007 -- Karimov Family Overreach and Presidential Resilience, 2005 and 2013-2014 -- Family Overreach and the Downfall of Multiple Eurasian Presidents : Akayev (2005), Bakiyev (2010), Yanukovych (2013-2014), and Nazarbayev (2022-2023) -- Family Overreach and Presidential Downfall in Comparative Perspective : Ben Ali (Tunisia), Mubarak (Egypt), and Smirnov (Transnistria) in 2011 -- Family Rule and Family-Induced Crisis, the View from Eurasia -- Conclusion : Authoritarianism, Conceptions, and Reconceptions.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Former Soviet Union