Author: Heydemann, Steven
Title: Authoritarianism in Syria : Institutions and Social Conflict, 1946 - 1970
Description: Ithaca [NY], Cornell University Press, (1999). orig.boards. 23x15cm, x,226 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Successful Authoritarianism? Syria in Comparative Perspective; The Rise & Decline of the Idea of a Social Pact; State, Capital, & the Organization of Social Conflict; Building the Institutiions of Populist Authoritarian Rule; Corporatism & Countermobilization; Authoritarian Legacies & the Failure of Controlled Liberalism; Consolidating Populist Authoritarian Rule; Interests & Institutions in the Persistence of Syrian Authoritarianism.

Keywords: Syrian Political History, Syria Ba'athism, Ba'athist Ba'thist, Authoritarianism, Authoritarian, Hafiz al-Asad, Ba'th Party Ba'ath, Politics Ba'thism, Populism