Constraining Dictatorship
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Constraining Dictatorship
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Author : Anne Meng
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-08-20
Constraining Dictatorship written by Anne Meng and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-20 with History categories.
Examining constitutional rules and power-sharing in Africa reveals how some dictatorships become institutionalized, rule-based systems.
How Dictatorships Work
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Author : Barbara Geddes
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-08-23
How Dictatorships Work written by Barbara Geddes and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-23 with Political Science categories.
Explains how dictatorships rise, survive, and fall, along with why some but not all dictators wield vast powers.
Laws Of Politics
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Author : Alfred G. Cuzán
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-08-23
Laws Of Politics written by Alfred G. Cuzán and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-23 with Political Science categories.
Drawing on classic and contemporary scholarship and empirical analysis of elections and public expenditures in 80 countries, the author argues for the existence of primary and secondary laws of politics. Starting with how basic elements of politics—leadership, organization, ideology, resources, and force—coalesce in the formation of states, he proceeds to examine the operations of those laws in democracies and dictatorships. Primary laws constrain the support that incumbents draw from the electorate, limiting their time in office. They operate unimpeded in democracies. Secondary laws describe the general tendency of the state to expand vis-à-vis economy and society. They exert their greatest force in one-party states imbued with a totalitarian ideology. The author establishes the primary laws in a rigorous analysis of 1,100 parliamentary and presidential elections in 80 countries, plus another 1,000 U.S. gubernatorial elections. Evidence for the secondary laws is drawn from public expenditure data series, with findings presented in easily grasped tables and graphs. Having established these laws quantitatively, the author uses Cuba as a case study, adding qualitative analysis and a practical application to propose a constitutional framework for a future Cuban democracy. Written in an engaging, jargon-free style, this enlightening book will be of great interest to students and scholars in political science, especially those specializing in comparative politics, as well as opinion leaders and engaged citizens.
Constitutionalism And Dictatorship
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Author : Robert Barros
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2002-07-04
Constitutionalism And Dictatorship written by Robert Barros and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-07-04 with Political Science categories.
It is widely believed that autocratic regimes cannot limit their power through institutions of their own making. This book presents a surprising challenge to this view. It demonstrates that the Chilean armed forces were constrained by institutions of their own design. Based on extensive documentation of military decision-making, much of it long classified and unavailable, this book reconstructs the politics of institutions within the recent Chilean dictatorship (1973–1990). It examines the structuring of institutions at the apex of the military junta, the relationship of military rule with the prior constitution, the intra-military conflicts that led to the promulgation of the 1980 constitution, the logic of institutions contained in the new constitution, and how the constitution constrained the military junta after it went into force in 1981. This provocative account reveals the standard account of the dictatorship as a personalist regime with power concentrated in Pinochet to be grossly inaccurate.
Constitutions In Authoritarian Regimes
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Author : Tom Ginsburg
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-12-30
Constitutions In Authoritarian Regimes written by Tom Ginsburg and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-30 with Law categories.
Constitutions in authoritarian regimes are often denigrated as meaningless exercises in political theater. Yet the burgeoning literature on authoritarian regimes more broadly has produced a wealth of insights into particular institutions such as legislatures, courts and elections; into regime practices such as co-optation and repression; and into non-democratic sources of accountability. In this vein, this volume explores the form and function of constitutions in countries without the fully articulated institutions of limited government. The chapters utilize a wide range of methods and focus on a broad set of cases, representing many different types of authoritarian regimes. The book offers an exploration into the constitutions of authoritarian regimes, generating broader insights into the study of constitutions and their functions more generally.
Private Government
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Author : Elizabeth Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2019-04-30
Private Government written by Elizabeth Anderson and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-30 with Philosophy categories.
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.
Capitalist Dictatorship
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Author : Milan Zafirovski
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-04-26
Capitalist Dictatorship written by Milan Zafirovski and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-26 with Social Science categories.
Milan Zafirovski identifies and investigates the resurgence of capitalist dictatorship in contemporary society, especially after 2016. This book introduces the concept of capitalist dictatorship to the academic audience for the first time. It examines the capitalist dictatorship as a total social system composed of specific systems such as a coercive economy, repressive polity, illiberal civil society and irrational culture in contrast to liberal democracy. It also investigates multiple dimensions, forms and indicators of capitalist dictatorship, and calculates degrees of capitalist dictatorship for contemporary Western and comparable societies such as OECD countries. Capitalist dictatorship, including autocracy, Zafirovski argues, is the gravest threat to contemporary democratic society post-2016.
Dictatorship And Information
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Author : Martin K. Dimitrov
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2023
Dictatorship And Information written by Martin K. Dimitrov and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Political Science categories.
Fear pervades dictatorial regimes. Citizens fear leaders, the regime's agents fear superiors, and leaders fear the masses. The ubiquity of fear in such regimes gives rise to the "dictator's dilemma," where autocrats do not know the level of opposition they face and cannot effectively neutralize domestic threats to their rule. The dilemma has led scholars to believe that autocracies are likely to be short-lived. Yet, some autocracies have found ways to mitigate the dictator's dilemma. As Martin K. Dimitrov shows in Dictatorship and Information, substantial variability exists in the survival of nondemocratic regimes, with single-party polities having the longest average duration. Offering a systematic theory of the institutional solutions to the dictator's dilemma, Dimitrov argues that single-party autocracies have fostered channels that allow for the confidential vertical transmission of information, while also solving the problems associated with distorted information. To explain how this all works, Dimitrov focuses on communist regimes, which have the longest average lifespan among single-party autocracies and have developed the most sophisticated information-gathering institutions. Communist regimes face a variety of threats, but the main one is the masses. Dimitrov therefore examines the origins, evolution, and internal logic of the information-collection ecosystem established by communist states to monitor popular dissent. Drawing from a rich base of evidence across multiple communist regimes and nearly 100 interviews, Dimitrov reshapes our understanding of how autocrats learn--or fail to learn--about the societies they rule, and how they maintain--or lose--power.
Africa Is Not For Sale
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Author : Quincy S Jones
language : en
Publisher: Balboa Press
Release Date : 2022-03-22
Africa Is Not For Sale written by Quincy S Jones and has been published by Balboa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-22 with Political Science categories.
The African continent is for sale and on its way to being owned by the superpowers. Quincy S Jones makes that bold assertion in this book, noting that those signing the sale contracts are dictators willing to kill anyone in return for fistfuls of money. The question is: Will the African people allow this to happen? In calling attention to the stakes, the author seeks to answer questions such as: • How have dictators come to power throughout Africa? • What role does the military play in Africa? • What can be done to stem rampant corruption? • What role does populism play in Africa’s politics? The author also examines the role that guns play in everyday life, the recent military coup in the West African state of Mali, and how various nations have responded to military coups. Ultimately, the author concludes that the only way for Africans to control their destiny is to: • Unite against their dictators. • Build liberal democracies across the continent. • Build an African Défense Alliance “A.D.A” & one currency for Africa to be named “Africa”.
Contested Violated But Persistent
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Author : Charlotte Heyl
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-12-26
Contested Violated But Persistent written by Charlotte Heyl and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-26 with Political Science categories.
Presidential term limits have been a crucial institutional feature of the third wave of democratization. They are meant to safeguard democracy by promoting alternation in office and preventing the personalization of power. However, since the 1990s term limits have been subject to frequent contestation by incumbents. Such contestation process has often been considered a sign of autocratization, particularly when it involves the weakening of other constitutional constraints, such as courts and legislatures. Term-limit contestations have attracted the attention of scholars working with a global perspective as well as with a regional or country-specific one too. Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa are focal points of these trends, despite their different histories of presidentialism and diverging types of term-limit rules. This book generates new empirical and theoretical insights by bringing together the scholarship on Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa, providing context-bound intraregional research as well as long-term perspectives for the study of term-limit change. The chapters advance novel findings on institutionalization, the power of precedence, incumbent-centred strategies, and approaches to protect presidential term limits. This volume will be of great use to students and researchers interested in Latin American and African studies, comparative politics as well as political leadership. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Democratization.