Centre-Province Relations in Personalist Autocracies : Explaining the Emergence and Survival of Powerful Provincial Leaders

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=g4iRjyqRFL" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=g4iRjyqRFL</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/gov.2021.13" target="_blank" >10.1017/gov.2021.13</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Centre-Province Relations in Personalist Autocracies : Explaining the Emergence and Survival of Powerful Provincial Leaders

Original language description

We have limited knowledge of how the insecure environment characteristic of personalist dictatorships affects the behaviour of provincial leaders. In this article, we argue that such provincial leaders face a trade-off: either they can keep a low profile but remain vulnerable to the capriciousness of the ruler (the acquiescent strategy), or they can gamble and try to build a power base of their own as a defence against the whims of the dictator (the power-accruing strategy). Next, we specify three contextual conditions, each of which makes provincial leaders more likely to choose and succeed with a power-accruing strategy, which in turn allows them to rule their province with an iron fist. Finally, empirically, we illustrate our arguments through a number of example cases and an in-depth study of a contemporary, very powerful provincial leader in a personalist authoritarian regime: Ramzan Kadyrov, leader of the Chechen Republic within Vladimir Putin&apos;s Russia.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Government and Opposition

ISSN

0017-257X

e-ISSN

1477-7053

Volume of the periodical

57

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

21

Pages from-to

446-466

UT code for WoS article

000767317700001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85107898771