| Author | : Barbara Geddes |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 275 |
| Release | : 2018-08-23 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1107115825 |
Explains how dictatorships rise, survive, and fall, along with why some but not all dictators wield vast powers.
| Author | : Barbara Geddes |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 270 |
| Release | : 2018-08-23 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9781107535954 |
This accessible volume shines a light on how autocracy really works by providing basic facts about how post-World War II dictatorships achieve, retain, and lose power. The authors present an evidence-based portrait of key features of the authoritarian landscape with newly collected data about 200 dictatorial regimes. They examine the central political processes that shape the policy choices of dictatorships and how they compel reaction from policy makers in the rest of the world. Importantly, this book explains how some dictators concentrate great power in their own hands at the expense of other members of the dictatorial elite. Dictators who can monopolize decision making in their countries cause much of the erratic, warlike behavior that disturbs the rest of the world. By providing a picture of the central processes common to dictatorships, this book puts the experience of specific countries in perspective, leading to an informed understanding of events and the likely outcome of foreign responses to autocracies.
| Author | : Anne Meng |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 277 |
| Release | : 2020-08-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1108834892 |
Examining constitutional rules and power-sharing in Africa reveals how some dictatorships become institutionalized, rule-based systems.
| Author | : Natasha M. Ezrow |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 335 |
| Release | : 2011-02-24 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 144117396X |
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| Author | : Aleksandar Matovski |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 319 |
| Release | : 2021-11-25 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1009051571 |
Electoral autocracies – regimes that adopt democratic institutions but subvert them to rule as dictatorships – have become the most widespread, resilient and malignant non-democracies today. They have consistently ruled over a third of the countries in the world, including geopolitically significant states like Russia, Turkey, Venezuela, Egypt, Indonesia, Nigeria and Pakistan. Challenging conventional wisdom, Popular Dictators shows that the success of electoral authoritarianism is not due to these regimes' superior capacity to repress, bribe, brainwash and manipulate their societies into submission, but is actually a product of their genuine popular appeal in countries experiencing deep political, economic and security crises. Promising efficient, strong-armed rule tempered by popular accountability, elected strongmen attract mass support in societies traumatized by turmoil, dysfunction and injustice, allowing them to rule through the ballot box. Popular Dictators argues that this crisis legitimation strategy makes electoral authoritarianism the most significant threat to global peace and democracy.
| Author | : Bruce Bueno de Mesquita |
| Publisher | : Public Affairs |
| Total Pages | : 354 |
| Release | : 2011-09-27 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 161039044X |
Explains the theory of political survival, particularly in cases of dictators and despotic governments, arguing that political leaders seek to stay in power using any means necessary, most commonly by attending to the interests of certain coalitions.
| Author | : Elizabeth Anderson |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 222 |
| Release | : 2019-04-30 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0691192243 |
Why our workplaces are authoritarian private governments—and why we can’t see it One in four American workers says their workplace is a “dictatorship.” Yet that number almost certainly would be higher if we recognized employers for what they are—private governments with sweeping authoritarian power over our lives. Many employers minutely regulate workers’ speech, clothing, and manners on the job, and employers often extend their authority to the off-duty lives of workers, who can be fired for their political speech, recreational activities, diet, and almost anything else employers care to govern. In this compelling book, Elizabeth Anderson examines why, despite all this, we continue to talk as if free markets make workers free, and she proposes a better way to think about the workplace, opening up space for discovering how workers can enjoy real freedom.
| Author | : Ronald Wintrobe |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 404 |
| Release | : 2000-09-25 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780521794497 |
Although much of the world still lives today, as always, under dictatorship, the behaviour of these regimes and of their leaders often appears irrational and mysterious. In The Political Economy of Dictatorship, Ronald Wintrobe uses rational choice theory to model dictatorships: their strategies for accumulating power, the constraints on their behavior, and why they are often more popular than is commonly accepted. The book explores both the politics and the economics of dictatorships, and the interaction between them. The questions addressed include: What determines the repressiveness of a regime? Can political authoritarianism be 'good' for the economy? After the fall, who should be held responsible for crimes against human rights? The book contains many applications, including chapters on Nazi Germany, Soviet Communism, South Africa under apartheid, the ancient Roman Empire and Pinochet's Chile. It also provides a guide to the policies which should be followed by the democracies towards dictatorships.
| Author | : Gene Sharp |
| Publisher | : Albert Einstein Institution |
| Total Pages | : 85 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1880813092 |
A serious introduction to the use of nonviolent action to topple dictatorships. Based on the author's study, over a period of forty years, on non-violent methods of demonstration, it was originally published in 1993 in Thailand for distribution among Burmese dissidents.
