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Author : Barbara Geddes
Release : 2018-08-23
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 825/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis How Dictatorships Work by : Barbara Geddes
Download or read book How Dictatorships Work written by Barbara Geddes. This book was released on 2018-08-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how dictatorships rise, survive, and fall, along with why some but not all dictators wield vast powers.
Author : Barbara Geddes
Release : 2018-08-23
Genre : Political Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 954/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis How Dictatorships Work by : Barbara Geddes
Download or read book How Dictatorships Work written by Barbara Geddes. This book was released on 2018-08-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Natasha M. Ezrow
Release : 2011-02-24
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 96X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Dictators and Dictatorships by : Natasha M. Ezrow
Download or read book Dictators and Dictatorships written by Natasha M. Ezrow. This book was released on 2011-02-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: >
Author : Gene Sharp
Release : 2008
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 092/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis From Dictatorship to Democracy by : Gene Sharp
Download or read book From Dictatorship to Democracy written by Gene Sharp. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Celia Donert
Release : 2022-03-22
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 283/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Making Sense of Dictatorship by : Celia Donert
Download or read book Making Sense of Dictatorship written by Celia Donert. This book was released on 2022-03-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did political power function in the communist regimes of Central and Eastern Europe after 1945? Making Sense of Dictatorship addresses this question with a particular focus on the acquiescent behavior of the majority of the population until, at the end of the 1980s, their rejection of state socialism and its authoritarian world. The authors refer to the concept of Sinnwelt, the way in which groups and individuals made sense of the world around them. The essays focus on the dynamics of everyday life and the extent to which the relationship between citizens and the state was collaborative or antagonistic. Each chapter addresses a different aspect of life in this period, including modernization, consumption and leisure, and the everyday experiences of “ordinary people,” single mothers, or those adopting alternative lifestyles. Empirically rich and conceptually original, the essays in this volume suggest new ways to understand how people make sense of everyday life under dictatorial regimes.
