How Dictatorships Work
Title | How Dictatorships Work PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Geddes |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
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.
Forms of Dictatorship
Title | Forms of Dictatorship PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Harford Vargas |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 275 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0190642858 |
Forms of Dictatorship examines novels that depict the historical reality of dictatorship and exploit dictatorship as a literary trope.
Dictatorship
Title | Dictatorship PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Fandel |
Publisher | The Creative Company |
Pages | 47 |
Release | 2007-07 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781583415337 |
Discusses what a dictatorship is, how it differs from a military dictatorship, and the history of this form of government and introduces current and past dictators.
Dictators and Dictatorships
Title | Dictators and Dictatorships PDF eBook |
Author | Natasha M. Ezrow |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 334 |
Release | 2011-02-24 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1441116028 |
Dictators and Dictatorships is a qualitative enquiry into the politics of authoritarian regimes. It argues that political outcomes in dictatorships are largely a product of leader-elite relations. Differences in the internal structure of dictatorships affect the dynamics of this relationship. This book shows how dictatorships differ from one another and the implications of these differences for political outcomes. In particular, it examines political processes in personalist, military, single-party, monarchic, and hybrid regimes. The aim of the book is to provide a clear definition of what dictatorship means, how authoritarian politics works, and what the political consequences of dictatorship are. It discusses how authoritarianism influences a range of political outcomes, such as economic performance, international conflict, and leader and regime durability. Numerous case studies from around the world support the theory and research presented to foster a better understanding of the inner workings of authoritarian regimes. By combining theory with concrete political situations, the book will appeal to undergraduate students in comparative politics, international relations, authoritarian politics, and democratization.
Universities Under Dictatorship
Title | Universities Under Dictatorship PDF eBook |
Author | John Connelly |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2010-11-01 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780271047966 |
Where the New World Is
Title | Where the New World Is PDF eBook |
Author | Martyn Bone |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2018-01-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0820351857 |
Where the New World Is assesses how fiction published since 1980 has resituated the U.S. South globally and how earlier twentieth-century writing already had done so in ways traditional southern literary studies tended to ignore. Martyn Bone argues that this body of fiction has, over the course of some eighty years, challenged received readings and understandings of the U.S. South as a fixed place largely untouched by immigration (or even internal migration) and economic globalization. The writers discussed by Bone emphasize how migration and labor have reconfigured the region’s relation to the nation and a range of transnational scales: hemispheric (Jamaica, the Bahamas, Haiti), transatlantic/Black Atlantic (Denmark, England, Mauritania), and transpacific/global southern (Australia, China, Vietnam). Writers under consideration include Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, John Oliver Killens, Russell Banks, Erna Brodber, Cynthia Shearer, Ha Jin, Monique Truong, Lan Cao, Toni Morrison, Peter Matthiessen, Dave Eggers, and Laila Lalami. The book also seeks to resituate southern studies by drawing on theories of “scale” that originated in human geography. In this way, Bone also offers a new paradigm in which the U.S. South is thoroughly engaged with a range of other scales from the local to the global, making both literature about the region and southern studies itself truly transnational in scope.
Electoral Authoritarianism
Title | Electoral Authoritarianism PDF eBook |
Author | Andreas Schedler |
Publisher | L. Rienner Publishers |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN |
Today, electoral authoritarianism represents the most common form of political regime in the developing world - and the one we know least about. Filling in the lacuna, this book presents cutting-edge research on the internal dynamics of electoral authoritarian regimes.