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What is a dictatorship?
\"The rise of a dictator never happens the same way. Dictators have absolute power over a country, but how they obtain that power and what they use it for makes this form of government one of the most interesting political systems in the world. Discover the harsh governments of dictators around the world and learn how ancient dictatorships have influenced modern leaders who rule with an iron fist.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Political Institutions under Dictatorship
Often dismissed as window dressing, nominally democratic institutions, such as legislatures and political parties, play an important role in non-democratic regimes. In a comprehensive cross-national study of all non-democratic states from 1946 to 2002 that examines the political uses of these institutions by dictators, Jennifer Gandhi finds that legislative and partisan institutions are an important component in the operation and survival of authoritarian regimes. She examines how and why these institutions are useful to dictatorships in maintaining power. In their efforts to neutralize threats to their power and to solicit cooperation from society, autocratic leaders use these institutions to organize concessions to potential opposition. The use of legislatures and parties to co-opt opposition results in significant institutional effects on policies and outcomes under dictatorship.
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Dictatorship in South America
Dictatorship in South America explores the experiences of Brazilian, Argentine and Chilean experience under military rule.Presents a single-volume thematic study that explores experiences with dictatorship as well as their social and historical contexts in Latin AmericaExamines at the ideological and economic crossroads that brought Argentina, Brazil and Chile under the thrall of military dictatorshipDraws on recent historiographical currents from Latin America to read these regimes as radically ideological and inherently unstableMakes a close reading of the economic trajectory from dependency to development and democratization and neoliberal reform in language that is accessible to general readersOffers a lively and readable narrative that brings popular perspectives to bear on national histories
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Post-Communist Mafia State
Having won a two-third majority in Parliament at the 2010 elections, the Hungarian political party Fidesz removed many of the institutional obstacles of exerting power. Just like the party, the state itself was placed under the control of a single individual, who since then has applied the techniques used within his party to enforce submission and obedience onto society as a whole. In a new approach the author characterizes the system as the ‘organized over-world’, the ‘state employing mafia methods’ and the ’adopted political family', applying these categories not as metaphors but elements of a coherent conceptual framework.The actions of the post-communist mafia state model are closely aligned with the interests of power and wealth concentrated in the hands of a small group of insiders. While the traditional mafia channeled wealth and economic players into its spheres of influence by means of direct coercion, the mafia state does the same by means of parliamentary legislation, legal prosecution, tax authority, police forces and secret service. The innovative conceptual framework of the book is important and timely not only for Hungary, but also for other post-communist countries subjected to autocratic rules.
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Dictators and disciples : From Caesar to Stalin : a psychoanalytic interpretation of history
Chapters on Caesar, Cromwell, Robespierre, Hitler and Stalin.
The Economic Accomplices to the Argentine Dictatorship: Outstanding Debts by Horacio Verbitsky and Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, eds
By Horacio Verbitsky and Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, eds. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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