The pitfalls of family rule : patronage norms, family overreach, and political crisis in Kazakhstan and beyond /

"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"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Junisbai, Barbara, 1973- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2025.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 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.