Do New Leaders Make a Difference?: Executive Succession and Public Policy Under Capitalism and Socialism (Princeton Legacy Library, 633) - Hardcover

Bunce, Valerie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691642567 ISBN 13: 9780691642567

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Professor Bunce assesses the impact of changes in leadership on priorities in policy within the Soviet bloc and western democratic states during the postwar era, with particular emphasis on the Soviet Union and the United States.

Originally published in 1981.

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About the Author:

Valerie Bunce is the Aaron Binenkorb Professor of International Studies and Professor of Government at Cornell University. Bunce is the author, most recently, of Subversive Institutions: The Design and the Collapse of Socialism and the State (Cambridge, 1999), and her articles have appeared in the American Political Science Review, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Politics and Society, and International Organization, together with a variety of area-based journals and edited volumes.

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0691642567
• ISBN 13: 9780691642567
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 312