Bridling dictators : rules and authoritarian politics / Graeme Gill.
By: Gill, Graeme J [author.]
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021Description: 1 online resource (400 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780191944802 (ebook) :Subject(s): Authoritarianism -- Philosophy | Communism | Dictatorship | DespotismAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780192849687DDC classification: 321.9 LOC classification: JC480Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: Galtieri, Lukashenka, and Putin are some of the dictators whose untrammelled personal power has been seen as typical of the dog-eat-dog nature of leadership in authoritarian political systems. This book provides an innovative argument that, rather than being characterised by permanent insecurity, fear, and arbitrariness, the leadership of dictatorships is actually governed by a series of rules. The rules are identified, and their operation is shown in a range of different types of authoritarian regime. The operation of the rules is explained in ten different countries across five different regime types: the Soviet Union and China as communist single party regimes; Argentina, Brazil, and Chile as military regimes; electoral authoritarian Malaysia and Mexico; personalist dictatorships in Belarus and Russia; and the Gulf monarchies.
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Also issued in print: 2021.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Galtieri, Lukashenka, and Putin are some of the dictators whose untrammelled personal power has been seen as typical of the dog-eat-dog nature of leadership in authoritarian political systems. This book provides an innovative argument that, rather than being characterised by permanent insecurity, fear, and arbitrariness, the leadership of dictatorships is actually governed by a series of rules. The rules are identified, and their operation is shown in a range of different types of authoritarian regime. The operation of the rules is explained in ten different countries across five different regime types: the Soviet Union and China as communist single party regimes; Argentina, Brazil, and Chile as military regimes; electoral authoritarian Malaysia and Mexico; personalist dictatorships in Belarus and Russia; and the Gulf monarchies.
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