Haus Publishing, 2019. — 176 p. The study of dictatorship in the West has acquired an almost exotic dimension. But authoritarian regimes remain a painful reality for billions of people worldwide who still live under them, their freedoms violated and their rights abused. They are subject to arbitrary arrest, torture, corruption, ignorance, and injustice. What is the nature of...
Routledge, 2021. — 250 p. This book takes a transnational and comparative approach that analyses the process of diffusion of a third way in selected transitions to authoritarianism in Europe and Latin America. When looking at the authoritarian wave of the 1930s, it is not difficult to see how some regimes appeared to offer an authoritarian third way somewhere between democracy...
Routledge, 2019. — 282 p. Many generous people deserve special thanks for their assistance in the preparation and completion of this project. I wish to express my gratitude to each of the contributors for agreeing to tackle a difficult and inherently controversial subject. The Third World and the military do not respond easily to scrutiny by social scientists. Civil-military...
Routledge, 2018. — 136 p. How do dictatorships justify their rule and with what effects? This and similar questions guide the contributions to this edited volume. Despite the recent resurgence of political science scholarship on autocratic resilience, many questions remain unanswered about the role of legitimation in contemporary non-democracies and its relationship with...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. — 264 p. — ISBN-10: 0197520138; ISBN-13: 978-0197520130. Authoritarian states work hard to manage their images abroad. They invest in foreign-facing media, hire public relations firms, tout their popular celebrities, and showcase their successes to elite and popular foreign audiences. However, there is a dark side to these efforts that is...
Rowman and Littlefield International, 2022. — 255 p. Power grabs, partisan stand-offs, propaganda, and riots make for tantalizing fiction, but what do we do when that drama becomes a reality all around us? For a country founded as an escape from British tyranny, the United States seems to have devolved into a land where tyrants rise to power, sycophants blindly follow, and the...
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020. — 336 p. In this thought-provoking book, Günter Frankenberg explores why authoritarian leaders create new constitutions, or revise old ones. Through a profound analysis of authoritarian constitutions as phenomena in their own right, Frankenberg reveals their purposes, the audiences they seek to address and investigates the ways in which they fit...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 221 p. — ISBN 978-3-031-05101-2. Excellent insights into the functioning of a competitive authoritarian system that for decades has managed to weather substantial challenges through fine-tuning of its ‘toolkit rather than overhauling its foundations. This book impressively dissects how the regime has used competition within authoritarianism to thwart...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 400 p. Galtieri, Lukashenka, and Putin are some of the dictators whose untrammelled personal power has been seen as typical of the dog-eat-dog nature of leadership in authoritarian political systems. This book provides an innovative argument that, rather than being characterised by permanent insecurity, fear, and arbitrariness, the leadership of...
Princeton University Press, 2022. — 342 p. How a new breed of dictators holds power by manipulating information and faking democracy. Hitler, Stalin, and Mao ruled through violence, fear, and ideology. But in recent decades a new breed of media-savvy strongmen has been redesigning authoritarian rule for a more sophisticated, globally connected world. In place of overt, mass...
Princeton University Press, 2022. — 342 p. How a new breed of dictators holds power by manipulating information and faking democracy. Hitler, Stalin, and Mao ruled through violence, fear, and ideology. But in recent decades a new breed of media-savvy strongmen has been redesigning authoritarian rule for a more sophisticated, globally connected world. In place of overt, mass...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 301 p. Stephen Hall argues that democracies can preserve their norms and values from increasing attacks and backsliding by better understanding how authoritarian regimes learn. He focuses on the post-Soviet region, investigating two established authoritarian regimes, Belarus and Russia, and two hybrid-regimes, Moldova and Ukraine, with the...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 317 p. China, like many authoritarian regimes, struggles with the tension between the need to foster economic development by empowering local officials and the regime’s imperative to control them politically. Pierre F. Landry explores how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) manages local officials in order to meet these goals and perpetuate an...
Routledge, 2021. — 465 p. In order to truly understand the emergence, endurance, and legacy of autocracy, this volume of engaging essays explores how autocratic power is acquired, exercised, and transferred or abruptly ended through the careers and politics of influential figures in more than 20 countries and six regions. The book looks at both traditional "hard" dictators,...
Princeton University Press, 2022. — 224 p. Revolution and Dictatorship explores why dictatorships born of social revolution--such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam--are extraordinarily durable, even in the face of economic crisis, large-scale policy failure, mass discontent, and intense external pressure. Few other modern autocracies have survived in...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 536 p. Competitive authoritarian regimes - in which autocrats submit to meaningful multiparty elections but engage in serious democratic abuse - proliferated in the post-Cold War era. Based on a detailed study of 35 cases in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and post-communist Eurasia, this book explores the fate of competitive authoritarian regimes...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 316 p. This book provides a theory of the logic of survival of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), one of the most resilient autocratic regimes in the twentieth century. An autocratic regime hid behind the facade of elections that were held with clockwise precision. Although their outcome was totally predictable, elections were not...
Other Press, 2022. — 288 p. From Putin, Trump, and Bolsonaro to Erdoğan, Orbán, and Xi, an intimate look at the rise of strongman leaders around the world. The first truly global treatment of the new nationalism, underpinned by an exceptional level of access to its key actors, from the award-winning journalist and author of Easternization. This is the most urgent political...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 344 p. — ISBN 978-1-107-61831-2. By examining the system of authoritarianism in eight Arab republics, Joseph Sassoon portrays life under these regimes and explores the mechanisms underpinning their resilience. How did the leadership in these countries create such enduring systems? What was the economic system that prolonged the regimes'...
Routledge, 2020. — 208 p. Although the phenomenon of authoritarian elections has been a focal point for the literature on authoritarian institutions for more than a decade, our understanding of the effect of authoritarian elections is still limited. Combining evidence from cross-national studies with studies on selected cases relying on recent field work, this book suggests a...
Cambridge University Pres, 2012. — 250 p. What drives politics in dictatorships? Milan W. Svolik argues that all authoritarian regimes must resolve two fundamental conflicts. First, dictators face threats from the masses over which they rule – this is the problem of authoritarian control. A second, separate, challenge arises from the elites with whom dictators rule – this is the...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 256 p. Populist Authoritarianism focuses on the Chinese Communist Party, which governs the world's largest population in a single-party authoritarian state. Wenfang Tang attempts to explain the seemingly contradictory trends of the increasing number of protests on the one hand, and the results of public opinion surveys that consistently show...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 252 p. Despite the dominant narrative of the repression of civil society in China, Civil Society under Authoritarianism: The China Model argues that interactions between local officials and civil society facilitate a learning process, whereby each actor learns about the intentions and work processes of the other. Over the past two decades,...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 0521189349 ISBN13: 9780521189347 An exciting new series that covers the five Paper 2 topics of the IB 20th Century World History syllabus. This coursebook covers Paper 2, Topic 3, Origins and development of authoritarian and single-party states, in the 20th Century World History syllabus for the IB History programme. It is...
University of Chicago Press, 2019. — 272 p. If the Arab uprisings initially heralded the end of tyrannies and a move toward liberal democratic governments, their defeat not only marked a reversal but was of a piece with emerging forms of authoritarianism worldwide. In Authoritarian Apprehensions , Lisa Wedeen draws on her decades-long engagement with Syria to offer an erudite...
Routledge, 2021. — 408 p. This handbook offers a comprehensive analysis of the processes and actors contributing to autocratization in South Asia. It provides an enhanced understanding of the interconnectedness of the different states in the region, and how that may be related to autocratization. The book analyses issues of state power, the support for political parties,...
New York: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2007. — xix, 337 p. Puritanism, Democracy, and Society This book explores the historical and contemporary relationships of Protestant Puritanism to political and social authoritarianism. It focuses on Puritanism’s original, subsequent and modern influences on and legacies in political democracy and civil society within...
New York: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2007. — xix, 337 p. Puritanism, Democracy, and Society This book explores the historical and contemporary relationships of Protestant Puritanism to political and social authoritarianism. It focuses on Puritanism’s original, subsequent and modern influences on and legacies in political democracy and civil society within...
М.: Европейский университет в Санкт-Петербурге, 2010. — 19 с.
Ряд специалистов характеризуют политический режим современной России как одно из проявлений электорального авторитаризма. Каковы основные параметры этого варианта режима в случае России, каковы его институциональные основы и механизмы поддержания? Какова логика его «жизненного цикла» – становления, развития и упадка,...
М.: Институт славяноведения РАН, 1999. - 240 с. (Центральноевропейские исследования. Вып.1) ISBN: 5-7576-0067-5 Сборник подготовлен по материалам российско-венгерской научной конференции, состоявшейся в Москве в сентябре 1994 г. В статьях всесторонне осмысляется феномен тоталитаризм и его место в истории XX века, на конкретном материале Центральной и Восточной Европы показаны...
М.: Институт славяноведения РАН, 1999. — 240 с. — (Центральноевропейские исследования. Выпуск 1). — ISBN 5-7576-0067-5. Сборник подготовлен по материалам российско-венгерской научной конференции, состоявшейся в Москве в сентябре 1994 г. В статьях всесторонне осмысляется феномен тоталитаризм и его место в истории XX века, на конкретном материале Центральной и Восточной Европы...
М.: Наука. Восточная литература, 1992. — 202 с. — ISBN: 5-02-017513-7.
В книге рассматривается трансформация авторитарных систем власти в ходе капиталистической модернизации стран Востока. Привлечён конкретный материал Таиланда, Пакистана, Индонезии, Филиппин и Турции. Особое внимание уделено политической активности военно-бюрократических кругов.
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