Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War. By Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way. Problems of International Politics. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xviii, 517 pp. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Figures. Tables. ․95.00, hard bound. ․29.99, paper.

Slavic Review ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 660-664 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Kubik
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
International Politics ◽  
Hybrid Regimes ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Competitive Authoritarianism ◽  
The Cold War

Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War. By Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 517p. $95.00 cloth, $29.99 paper.

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 385-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Slater
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Hybrid Regimes ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Competitive Authoritarianism ◽  
Distinctive Type ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Hybrid Regime

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.

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