The politics of protest in hybrid regimes: managing dissent in post-communist Russia, edited by Graeme B. Robertson, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010, 285 pp., US$95.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-521-11875-0
The literature on hybrid regimes has a new and undisputed heavyweight champion. Eight years after their widely cited Journal of Democracy article first unveiled “competitive authoritarianism” as a distinctive type of hybrid regime, Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way have constructed a volume that theorizes and traces the trajectories of the countries that have fit into this category since the Cold War's end—all thirty-five of them. While the theoretical ambition of Competitive Authoritarianism stakes the book's rightful claim to the title of hybrid-regime champion, the book's voluminous empirics unmistakably place it in political science's heavyweight class.
Carlos Gervasoni. Hybrid Regimes within Democracies. Fiscal Federalism and Subnational Rentier States. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 308 pp. ISBN: 978-1316510735