Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Note on Transliteration xiii
5. INTRODUCTION Family Overreach and the Varied Fates of Personalist Presidents 1
6. 1 PATRONAGE AS A NORMATIVE INSTITUTION 20
7. 2 NAZARBAYEV FAMILY OVERREACH AND PRESIDENTIAL RESILIENCE, 2001–2002 AND 2007 34
8. 3 KARIMOV FAMILY OVERREACH AND PRESIDENTIAL RESILIENCE, 2005 AND 2013–2014 64
9. 4 FAMILY OVERREACH AND THE DOWNFALL OF MULTIPLE EURASIAN PRESIDENTS Akayev (2005), Bakiyev (2010), Yanukovych (2013–2014), and Nazarbayev (2022–2023) 89
10. 5 FAMILY OVERREACH AND PRESIDENTIAL DOWNFALL IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE Ben Ali (Tunisia), Mubarak (Egypt), and Smirnov (Transnistria) in 2011 115
11. 6 FAMILY RULE AND FAMILY-INDUCED CRISIS, THE VIEW FROM EURASIA 132
12. CONCLUSION Authoritarianism, Conceptions and Reconceptions 149
13. Notes 159
14. References 169
15. Index 197