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Personalist Leaders, Such As Russia's Vladimir Putin, Belarus's Alexander Lukashenko, Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro, Are Gaining Strides In Global Politics. Their Motivations And Policies, However, Are Often Poorly Understood And The Regimes They Lead Are Difficult To Examine, Mostly Because Of Their Defining Feature-an Inordinate Concentration Of Power In The Hands Of One Single Individual. How Do Personalist Regimes Really Work? How Do Their Rulers Acquire And Maintain Personal Control? How Does Contemporary Personal Rule Differ From How It Was Practised During The Cold War? These Are The Key Questions Addressed In Personalism And Personalist Regimes, Which Offers A Systematic Examination Of The Logic Of Personalism, Or Personalist Rule, Tackling Comprehensively The Study Of Personalist Leaders And Personalist Regimes. The Book Is Underpinned By A Theoretical Framework That Combines Historical And Comparative Analyses, And It Also Features A Series Of Detailed Country Studies Authored By A Distinguished Group Of Comparativists And Area Studies Experts-- Provided By Publisher.