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Justifying Dictatorship

Author : Alexander Dukalskis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351044699
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Justifying Dictatorship written by Alexander Dukalskis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do dictatorships justify their rule and with what effects? This and similar questions guide the contributions to this edited volume. Despite the recent resurgence of political science scholarship on autocratic resilience, many questions remain unanswered about the role of legitimation in contemporary non-democracies and its relationship with neighbouring concepts, like ideology, censorship, and consent. The overarching thesis of this book is that autocratic legitimation has causal influence on numerous outcomes of interest in authoritarian politics. These outcomes include regime resilience, challenger-state interactions, the procedures and operations of elections, social service provision, and the texture of everyday life in autocracies. Researchers of autocratic politics will benefit from the rich contributions of this volume. The chapters in this book were originally published in a special issue of Contemporary Politics.

Universities Under Dictatorship

Author : John Connelly
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271047966
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (479 download)

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Download or read book Universities Under Dictatorship written by John Connelly and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Justifying Injustice

Author : Herlinde Pauer-Studer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110715930X
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Justifying Injustice written by Herlinde Pauer-Studer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Nazi legal theory, the normative ideas driving the Führer state and the legal subtext to the regime's escalating atrocities.

Voltaire's Bastards

Author : John Ralston Saul
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476718938
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Voltaire's Bastards written by John Ralston Saul and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-25 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a new Introduction by the author, this “erudite and brilliantly readable book” (The Observer, London) expertly dissects the political, economic, and social origins of Western civilization to reveal a culture cripplingly enslaved to crude notions of rationality and expertise. With a new introduction by the author, this “erudite and brilliantly readable book” (The Observer, London) astutely dissects the political, economic and social origins of Western civilization to reveal a culture cripplingly enslaved to crude notions of rationality and expertise. The Western world is full of paradoxes. We talk endlessly of individual freedom, yet we’ve never been under more pressure to conform. Our business leaders describe themselves as capitalists, yet most are corporate employees and financial speculators. We call our governments democracies, yet few of us participate in politics. We complain about invasive government, yet our legal, educational, financial, social, cultural and legislative systems are deteriorating. All these problems, John Ralston Saul argues, are largely the result of our blind faith in the value of reason. Over the past 400 years, our “rational elites” have turned the modern West into a vast, incomprehensible, directionless machine, run by process-minded experts—“Voltaire’s bastards”—whose cult of scientific management is empty of both sense and morality. Whether in politics, art, business, the military, entertainment, science, finance, academia or journalism, these experts share the same outlook and methods. The result, Saul maintains, is a civilization of immense technological power whose ordinary citizens are increasingly excluded from the decision-making process. In this wide-ranging anatomy of modern society and its origins—whose “pages explode with insight, style and intellectual rigor” (Camille Paglia, The Washington Post)—Saul presents a shattering critique of the political, economic and cultural establishments of the West.

Dictatorship and Demand

Author : Mark Landsman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674039920
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Dictatorship and Demand written by Mark Landsman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation into the politics of consumerism in East Germany during the years between the Berlin Blockade of 1948-49 and the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, Dictatorship and Demand shows how the issue of consumption constituted a crucial battleground in the larger Cold War struggle. Based on research in recently opened East German state and party archives, this book depicts a regime caught between competing pressures. While East Germany's leaders followed a Soviet model, which fetishized productivity in heavy industry and prioritized the production of capital goods over consumer goods, they nevertheless had to contend with the growing allure of consumer abundance in West Germany. The usual difficulties associated with satisfying consumer demand in a socialist economy acquired a uniquely heightened political urgency, as millions of East Germans fled across the open border. A new vision of the East-West conflict emerges, one fought as much with washing machines, televisions, and high fashion as with political propaganda, espionage, and nuclear weapons. Dictatorship and Demand deepens our understanding of the Cold War.

Private Government

Author : Elizabeth Anderson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691192243
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Private Government written by Elizabeth Anderson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Dictatorships and Double Standards

Author : Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Dictatorships and Double Standards written by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy

Author : Barrington Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy written by Barrington Moore and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Marketing Dictatorship

Author : Anne-Marie Brady
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0742567907
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Marketing Dictatorship written by Anne-Marie Brady and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2009-11-16 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Click here to hear Anne-Marie Brady's BBC World Service radio documentary titled "The Message from China" China's government is no longer a Stalinist-Maoist dictatorship, yet it does not seem to be moving significantly closer to democracy as it is understood in Western terms. After a period of self-imposed exclusion, Chinese society is in the process of a massive transformation in the name of economic progress and integration into the world economy. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is seeking to maintain its rule over China indefinitely, creating yet another "new" China. Propaganda and thought work play a key role in this strategy. In this important book, noted China scholar Anne-Marie Brady answers some intriguing questions about China's contemporary propaganda system. Why have propaganda and thought work strengthened their hold in China in recent years? How has the CCP government strengthened its power since 1989 when so many analysts predicted otherwise? How does the CCP maintain its monopoly on political power while dismantling the socialist system? How can the government maintain popular support in China when the uniting force of Marxist-Leninist-Maoist ideology is spent and discredited? What has taken the place of communist ideology? Examining propaganda and thought work in the current period offers readers a unique understanding of how the CCP will address real and perceived threats to stability and its continued hold on power. This innovative book is a must-read for everyone interested in China's growing role in the world community.

Arafat

Author : Saïd K. Aburish
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0747544301
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Arafat written by Saïd K. Aburish and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1999-09-27 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the Palestinian leader

Big Business and Dictatorships in Latin America

Author : Victoria Basualdo
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030439259
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Big Business and Dictatorships in Latin America written by Victoria Basualdo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-04 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume studies the relationship between big business and the Latin American dictatorial regimes during the Cold War. The first section provides a general background about the contemporary history of business corporations and dictatorships in the twentieth century at the international level. The second section comprises chapters that analyze five national cases (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Peru), as well as a comparative analysis of the banking sector in the Southern Cone (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay). The third section presents six case studies of large companies in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Central America. This book is crucial reading because it provides the first comprehensive analysis of a key yet understudied topic in Cold War history in Latin America.

Dictators and Democrats

Author : Stephan Haggard
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691172153
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Dictators and Democrats written by Stephan Haggard and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rigorous and comprehensive account of recent democratic transitions around the world From the 1980s through the first decade of the twenty-first century, the spread of democracy across the developing and post-Communist worlds transformed the global political landscape. What drove these changes and what determined whether the emerging democracies would stabilize or revert to authoritarian rule? Dictators and Democrats takes a comprehensive look at the transitions to and from democracy in recent decades. Deploying both statistical and qualitative analysis, Stephen Haggard and Robert Kaufman engage with theories of democratic change and advocate approaches that emphasize political and institutional factors. While inequality has been a prominent explanation for democratic transitions, the authors argue that its role has been limited, and elites as well as masses can drive regime change. Examining seventy-eight cases of democratic transition and twenty-five reversions since 1980, Haggard and Kaufman show how differences in authoritarian regimes and organizational capabilities shape popular protest and elite initiatives in transitions to democracy, and how institutional weaknesses cause some democracies to fail. The determinants of democracy lie in the strength of existing institutions and the public's capacity to engage in collective action. There are multiple routes to democracy, but those growing out of mass mobilization may provide more checks on incumbents than those emerging from intra-elite bargains. Moving beyond well-known beliefs regarding regime changes, Dictators and Democrats explores the conditions under which transitions to democracy are likely to arise.

Psychology of Democracy

Author : Ashley Weinberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108477755
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Psychology of Democracy written by Ashley Weinberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-03 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about all our futures and demonstrates how essential insights from political psychology can nurture and safeguard democracy.

The Apprentice’s Sorcerer

Author : Ishay Landa
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047443810
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book The Apprentice’s Sorcerer written by Ishay Landa and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 20th-century European Fascism is conventionally described by both historians and political scientists as a fierce assault on liberal politics, culture and economics. Departing from such typical analysis, this book highlights the long overlooked critical affinities between liberal tradition and fascism. Far from being the antithesis of liberalism, fascism, both in its ideology and its practice, was substantially, if dialectically, indebted to liberalism, particularly to its economic variant. Fascism ought to be seen centrally as an effort to unknot the longue durée tangle of the liberal order, as it finally collided, head on, with mass democracy. This brilliantly provocative thesis is sustained through innovative and incisive readings of seminal political thinkers, from Locke and Burke, to Proudhon, Bagehot, Sorel and Schmitt.

Democrisis

Author : David Roche
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1471751651
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (717 download)

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Download or read book Democrisis written by David Roche and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-05-18 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democracy caused the debt crisis. Will it survive it? The question is whether new global leaders will stimulate the democratic model

Justification and Critique

Author : Rainer Forst
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 074565228X
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Justification and Critique written by Rainer Forst and published by Polity. This book was released on 2014 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rainer Forst develops a critical theory capable of deciphering the deficits and potentials inherent in contemporary political reality. This calls for a perspective which is immanent to social and political practices and at the same time transcends them. Forst regards society as a whole as an ‘order of justification’ comprising complexes of different norms referring to institutions and corresponding practices of justification. The task of a ‘critique of relations of justification’, therefore, is to analyse such legitimations with regard to their validity and genesis and to explore the social and political asymmetries leading to inequalities in the ‘justification power’ which enables persons or groups to contest given justifications and to create new ones. Starting from the concept of justification as a basic social practice, Forst develops a theory of political and social justice, human rights and democracy, as well as of power and of critique itself. In so doing, he engages in a critique of a number of contemporary approaches in political philosophy and critical theory. Finally, he also addresses the question of the utopian horizon of social criticism.

Xi Jinping's Anticorruption Campaign

Author : Steven P. Feldman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000877892
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Xi Jinping's Anticorruption Campaign written by Steven P. Feldman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-05 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through empirical analysis and conceptual development, this book analyzes the political psychology of Xi Jinping's Anticorruption Campaign and its role in the Chinese political system. Using Nietzsche’s concept of ressentiment and data collected from direct fieldwork, the book analyzes the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) dictatorship, revealing that it is prone to extremes, through ideology or corruption, and highlights how the Party’s attempts to address one extreme only leads to the rise of another. In turn, it examines the Anticorruption Campaign in multiple ways including its use to increase the role of ideology in Chinese society, how it functions to concentrate Xi's power, its cultural form as a status reversal ritual, and its continuity with previous communist campaigns and ancient Chinese political traditions. Through each of these analyses, the book identifies crucial mechanisms through which the CCP maintains power through interrelated policies, actions, and their emotional effects. Providing a vital understanding of the CCP, this book will be an invaluable resource to students and scholars of Chinese politics, as well as diplomats and policymakers on China.