What is a Dictatorship?
Title | What is a Dictatorship? PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah B. Boyle |
Publisher | Forms of Government (Crabtree) |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012-12-15 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780778753247 |
This fascinating book describes the characteristics of a dictatorship, a political system in which an individual has absolute power to rule without the consent of citizens. Dictatorships throughout history are featured to show examples of how these individuals attained their positions, either by force or by inheritance, why laws and constitutions do not constrain a dictator's actions, and how every aspect of citizens' lives can be regulated under this system.
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.
From Dictatorship to Democracy
Title | From Dictatorship to Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | Gene Sharp |
Publisher | Albert Einstein Institution |
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.
Making Sense of Dictatorship
Title | Making Sense of Dictatorship PDF eBook |
Author | Celia Donert |
Publisher | Central European University Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2022-03-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9633864283 |
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.
Dictators and Dictatorships
Title | Dictators and Dictatorships PDF eBook |
Author | Natasha M. Ezrow |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 335 |
Release | 2011-02-24 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 144117396X |
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How to Be a Dictator
Title | How to Be a Dictator PDF eBook |
Author | Frank Dikötter |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 377 |
Release | 2019-09-05 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1408891603 |
'Brilliant' NEW STATESMAN, BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'Enlightening and a good read' SPECTATOR 'Moving and perceptive' NEW STATESMAN Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Ceausescu, Mengistu of Ethiopia and Duvalier of Haiti. No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffices in the long term. A tyrant who can compel his own people to acclaim him will last longer. The paradox of the modern dictator is that he must create the illusion of popular support. Throughout the twentieth century, hundreds of millions of people were condemned to enthusiasm, obliged to hail their leaders even as they were herded down the road to serfdom. In How to Be a Dictator, Frank Dikötter returns to eight of the most chillingly effective personality cults of the twentieth century. From carefully choreographed parades to the deliberate cultivation of a shroud of mystery through iron censorship, these dictators ceaselessly worked on their own image and encouraged the population at large to glorify them. At a time when democracy is in retreat, are we seeing a revival of the same techniques among some of today's world leaders? This timely study, told with great narrative verve, examines how a cult takes hold, grows, and sustains itself. It places the cult of personality where it belongs, at the very heart of tyranny.
The Dictatorship Syndrome
Title | The Dictatorship Syndrome PDF eBook |
Author | Alaa Al Aswany |
Publisher | Haus Publishing |
Pages | 153 |
Release | 2019-12-29 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1912208601 |
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 dictatorship? How does it take hold? In what conditions and circumstances is it permitted to thrive? And how do dictators retain power, even when reviled and mocked by those they govern? In this deeply considered and at times provocative short work, Alaa Al Aswany tells us that, as with any disease, to understand the syndrome of dictatorship we must first consider the circumstances of its emergence, along with the symptoms and complications it causes in both the people and the dictator.