Abstract
Personalist regimes tend to be violently overthrown while single party states tend to nonviolently collapse from within. This paper analyzes Libya under Qaddafi as a personalist regime, and USSR under Gorbachev as a single party state, and seeks to ascertain through case studies and process tracing the reasons for the violent overthrow of personalist regimes compared to the peaceful collapse of single party regimes. Both regime types create the problems that result in their downfall, and both kinds of downfall are accelerated by the public appearance of weakness.
Notes
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Thesis Completion
2013
Semester
Fall
Advisor
Dolan, Thomas
Degree
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
College
College of Sciences
Department
Political Science
Degree Program
Political Science
Subjects
Dissertations, Academic -- Sciences; Sciences -- Dissertations, Academic
Format
Identifier
CFH0004536
Language
English
Access Status
Open Access
Length of Campus-only Access
None
Document Type
Honors in the Major Thesis
Recommended Citation
Austin, Victoria, "The Violent Overthrow of Personalist Regimes Compared to the Peaceful Collapse of Single Party Regimes" (2013). HIM 1990-2015. 1518.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/honorstheses1990-2015/1518