Dictatorship by Degrees

Dictatorship by Degrees
Author: Steven P. Feldman
Publsiher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2021-02-25
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781793616685

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Dictatorship by Degrees: Xi Jinping in China traces the totalitarian elements that linger in China’s governing policies and practices, such as extra-legal Anti-Corruption Campaign, great concentration of power in one man, increasing intolerance, increasing propaganda, increasing indoctrination, increasing self-criticism inside the Party, expansion of Party cells across society, increasing censorship, cult of personality, and mass incarceration in Xinjiang. Steven P. Feldman develops a concept of pre-totalitarianism to explore these developments through extensive field data, including interviews with business executives, professors, lawyers, and non-profit executives, and observations of daily life. Feldman argues that Chinese political culture, based on the core principle of small group loyalties is inherently unstable, resulting in an ongoing tendency for leaders to concentrate power to survive and accomplish their goals. Under communist dictatorial political organization, totalitarian domination is always a temptation and risk.

Dictatorship by Degrees

Dictatorship by Degrees
Author: Steven P. Feldman
Publsiher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2021-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1793616671

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Steven P. Feldman argues that Chinese political culture, based on the core principle of small group loyalties, is inherently unstable, resulting in an ongoing tendency for leaders to concentrate power in order to accomplish their goals. He examines this trend in Xi Jinping's regime through the concept of pre-totalitarianism.

Universities Under Dictatorship

Universities Under Dictatorship
Author: John Connelly,Michael Grüttner
Publsiher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2010-11-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0271047968

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Making the World Safe for Dictatorship

Making the World Safe for Dictatorship
Author: Alexander Dukalskis
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2021
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780197520130

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Making the World Safe for Dictatorship is about how authoritarian states manage their image abroad using both "promotional" tactics of persuasion and "obstructive" tactics of repression. All states attempt to manage their global image to some degree, but authoritarian states in the post-Cold War era have special incentives to do so given the predominance of democracy as an international norm. Alexander Dukalskis looks at the tactics that authoritarian states use for image management and the ways in which their strategies vary from one state to another. Moreover, Dukalskis looks at the degree to which some authoritarian states succeed in using image management to enhance their internal and external security, and, in turn, to make their world safe for dictatorship.

The Dictator s Learning Curve

The Dictator s Learning Curve
Author: William J. Dobson
Publsiher: Anchor
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2012-06-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780385533362

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In this riveting anatomy of authoritarianism, acclaimed journalist William Dobson takes us inside the battle between dictators and those who would challenge their rule. Recent history has seen an incredible moment in the war between dictators and democracy—with waves of protests sweeping Syria and Yemen, and despots falling in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya. But the Arab Spring is only the latest front in a global battle between freedom and repression, a battle that, until recently, dictators have been winning hands-down. The problem is that today’s authoritarians are not like the frozen-in-time, ready-to-crack regimes of Burma and North Korea. They are ever-morphing, technologically savvy, and internationally connected, and have replaced more brutal forms of intimidation with subtle coercion. The Dictator’s Learning Curve explains this historic moment and provides crucial insight into the fight for democracy.

How Dictatorships Work

How Dictatorships Work
Author: Barbara Geddes,Joseph George Wright,Joseph Wright,Erica Frantz
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2018-08-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781107115828

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Explains how dictatorships rise, survive, and fall, along with why some but not all dictators wield vast powers.

Private Government

Private Government
Author: Elizabeth Anderson
Publsiher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2019-04-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780691192246

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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.

Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy

Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
Author: Barrington Moore
Publsiher: London : Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1967 [c1966]
Total Pages: 559
Release: 1967
Genre: Asia
ISBN: 0140550860

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