Popular Dictatorships
Title | Popular Dictatorships PDF eBook |
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.
How Dictatorships Work
Title | How Dictatorships Work PDF eBook |
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.
The Dictator's Handbook
Title | The Dictator's Handbook PDF eBook |
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.
Popular Dictatorships
Title | Popular Dictatorships PDF eBook |
Author | Aleksandar Matovski |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 319 |
Release | 2021-11-25 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1316517802 |
Shows that the most widespread and malignant dictatorships today emerge by attracting genuine popular support in societies plagued by crises.
How Dictatorships Work
Title | How Dictatorships Work PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Geddes |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 275 |
Release | 2018-08-23 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1108629903 |
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.
From Dictatorship to Democracy
Title | From Dictatorship to Democracy PDF eBook |
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.
Dictators and Dictatorships
Title | Dictators and Dictatorships PDF eBook |
Author | Natasha M. Ezrow |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Total Pages | 335 |
Release | 2011-02-24 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 144117396X |
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