Democracy, Dictatorship, and Default : Urban-Rural Bias and Economic Crises across Regimes (Hardcover)

1. Introduction; 2. Political survival, mass politics, and sovereign default; 3. Regime-contingent biases and sovereign default, 1960?2009; 4. Default pressures in closed versus electoral autocracy: Zambia and Malaysia; 5. Default pressures in consolidated versus contentious democracy: Costa Rica and Jamaica; 6. Urban-rural pressures across regime types: the case of Turkey; 7. Conclusion.