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Spin Dictators
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Author : Daniel Treisman
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2023-04-04
Spin Dictators written by Daniel Treisman 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 2023-04-04 with Political Science categories.
How a new breed of dictators holds power by manipulating information and faking democracy Hitler, Stalin, and Mao ruled through violence, fear, and ideology. But in recent decades a new breed of media-savvy strongmen has been redesigning authoritarian rule for a more sophisticated, globally connected world. In place of overt, mass repression, rulers such as Vladimir Putin, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Viktor Orbán control their citizens by distorting information and simulating democratic procedures. Like spin doctors in democracies, they spin the news to engineer support. Uncovering this new brand of authoritarianism, Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman explain the rise of such “spin dictators,” describing how they emerge and operate, the new threats they pose, and how democracies should respond. Spin Dictators traces how leaders such as Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew and Peru’s Alberto Fujimori pioneered less violent, more covert, and more effective methods of monopolizing power. They cultivated an image of competence, concealed censorship, and used democratic institutions to undermine democracy, all while increasing international engagement for financial and reputational benefits. The book reveals why most of today’s authoritarians are spin dictators—and how they differ from the remaining “fear dictators” such as Kim Jong-un and Bashar al-Assad, as well as from masters of high-tech repression like Xi Jinping. Offering incisive portraits of today’s authoritarian leaders, Spin Dictators explains some of the great political puzzles of our time—from how dictators can survive in an age of growing modernity to the disturbing convergence and mutual sympathy between dictators and populists like Donald Trump.
Spin Dictators
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Author : Daniel Treisman
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2023-04-04
Spin Dictators written by Daniel Treisman 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 2023-04-04 with Political Science categories.
How a new breed of dictators holds power by manipulating information and faking democracy Hitler, Stalin, and Mao ruled through violence, fear, and ideology. But in recent decades a new breed of media-savvy strongmen has been redesigning authoritarian rule for a more sophisticated, globally connected world. In place of overt, mass repression, rulers such as Vladimir Putin, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Viktor Orbán control their citizens by distorting information and simulating democratic procedures. Like spin doctors in democracies, they spin the news to engineer support. Uncovering this new brand of authoritarianism, Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman explain the rise of such “spin dictators,” describing how they emerge and operate, the new threats they pose, and how democracies should respond. Spin Dictators traces how leaders such as Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew and Peru’s Alberto Fujimori pioneered less violent, more covert, and more effective methods of monopolizing power. They cultivated an image of competence, concealed censorship, and used democratic institutions to undermine democracy, all while increasing international engagement for financial and reputational benefits. The book reveals why most of today’s authoritarians are spin dictators—and how they differ from the remaining “fear dictators” such as Kim Jong-un and Bashar al-Assad, as well as from masters of high-tech repression like Xi Jinping. Offering incisive portraits of today’s authoritarian leaders, Spin Dictators explains some of the great political puzzles of our time—from how dictators can survive in an age of growing modernity to the disturbing convergence and mutual sympathy between dictators and populists like Donald Trump.
Summary Of Sergei Guriev Daniel Treisman S Spin Dictators
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Author : Everest Media,
language : en
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
Release Date : 2022-04-16T22:59:00Z
Summary Of Sergei Guriev Daniel Treisman S Spin Dictators written by Everest Media, and has been published by Everest Media LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-16T22:59:00Z with Political Science categories.
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 In 1956, the Chinese-speaking students took over their middle schools in Singapore. The colonial authorities dissolved the students’ union and arrested its leaders, saying the organization had been infiltrated by communists. In protest, thousands of teenagers flooded onto their school grounds. #2 Lee Kuan Yew, the leader of Singapore, had a very different approach to dealing with the Chinese protesters in Tiananmen Square than Deng Xiaoping did. He wanted to keep the country’s politics and economy strictly under his control. #3 In the 1950s, authoritarian rule was identified with violence. Around the globe, brutal regimes continued to kill their citizens by the thousands. In communist states, the body counts were staggering. #4 20th century dictators used violent repression to stay in power, but they also took pride in their gory exploits, which they made sure citizens knew about. The West underwent a revolution in penal philosophy and practices between 1760 and 1840, with the deliberate infliction of pain giving way to more humane and invisible punishments.
Spin Dictators
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Author : Sergei Guriev
language : fr
Publisher: Payot
Release Date : 2023-05-17T00:00:00+02:00
Spin Dictators written by Sergei Guriev and has been published by Payot this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-17T00:00:00+02:00 with History categories.
Il y a vingt ans, pour la première fois, on dénombrait plus de régimes démocratiques que de dictatures ; quelques années et une crise économique mondiale plus tard, les régimes autoritaires sont de nouveau plus nombreux. Comment les dictatures ont-elles fait pour prospérer après Staline, Hitler et Mao ? Pour asseoir leur pouvoir, les dictateurs classiques du XXe siècle utilisaient une arme : la terreur. Le XXIe siècle a vu surgir une nouvelle génération de dictateurs et d’autocrates (Lee Kwuan Yew, Fujimori, Poutine, Erdogan, Orban, etc.), les "spin dictators", qui exploitent les leviers de la politique démocratique et utilisent des formes plus discrètes de manipulation pour étendre leur emprise. Ce livre très informé raconte et décrypte ces nouvelles armes de la tyrannie.
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.
The Dictator S Handbook
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Author : Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
language : en
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Release Date : 2011-09-27
The Dictator S Handbook written by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and has been published by PublicAffairs this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-27 with Political Science categories.
A groundbreaking new theory of the real rules of politics: leaders do whatever keeps them in power, regardless of the national interest. As featured on the viral video Rules for Rulers, which has been viewed over 3 million times. Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith's canonical book on political science turned conventional wisdom on its head. They started from a single assertion: Leaders do whatever keeps them in power. They don't care about the "national interest"-or even their subjects-unless they have to. This clever and accessible book shows that democracy is essentially just a convenient fiction. Governments do not differ in kind but only in the number of essential supporters, or backs that need scratching. The size of this group determines almost everything about politics: what leaders can get away with, and the quality of life or misery under them. The picture the authors paint is not pretty. But it just may be the truth, which is a good starting point for anyone seeking to improve human governance.
The Dictator S Dilemma At The Ballot Box
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Author : Masaaki Higashijima
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2022-06-07
The Dictator S Dilemma At The Ballot Box written by Masaaki Higashijima and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-07 with Political Science categories.
Contrary to our stereotypical views, dictators often introduce elections in which they refrain from employing blatant electoral fraud. Why do electoral reforms happen in autocracies? Do these elections destabilize autocratic rule? The Dictator’s Dilemma at the Ballot Box argues that strong autocrats who can garner popular support become less dependent on coercive electioneering strategies. When autocrats fail to design elections properly, elections backfire in the form of coups, protests, and the opposition’s stunning election victories. The book’s theoretical implications are tested on a battery of cross-national analyses with newly collected data on autocratic elections and in-depth comparative case studies of the two Central Asian republics of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
How To Be A Dictator
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Author : Frank Dikötter
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-09-05
How To Be A Dictator written by Frank Dikötter and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-05 with Political Science categories.
'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.
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.
Making The World Safe For Dictatorship
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Author : Alexander Dukalskis
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021
Making The World Safe For Dictatorship written by Alexander Dukalskis 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 2021 with History categories.
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.