Author: Alfred Bert Carter Cobban
Publisher:
Published: 1939
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Peter Baehr
Publisher:
Published: 2004-02-16
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780521825634
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Historians and political theorists consider the subject of nineteenth- and twentieth-century dictatorships.
Author: Peter R. Baehr
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780511185984
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book brings together the work of historians and political theorists to examine the complex relationship among nineteenth-century democracy, nationalism, and authoritarianism. Political thinkers were faced with a battery of new terms - 'Bonapartism', 'Caesarism', and 'Imperialism' among them - with which to make sense of their era.
Author: Carl Schmitt
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2015-01-28
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 0745697143
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Now available in English for the first time, Dictatorship is Carl Schmitt’s most scholarly book and arguably a paradigm for his entire work. Written shortly after the Russian Revolution and the First World War, Schmitt analyses the problem of the state of emergency and the power of the Reichspräsident in declaring it. Dictatorship, Schmitt argues, is a necessary legal institution in constitutional law and has been wrongly portrayed as just the arbitrary rule of a so-called dictator. Dictatorship is an essential book for understanding the work of Carl Schmitt and a major contribution to the modern theory of a democratic, constitutional state. And despite being written in the early part of the twentieth century, it speaks with remarkable prescience to our contemporary political concerns.
Author: Benjamin Leontief Alpers
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780807854167
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Focusing on portrayals of Mussolini's Italy, Hitler's Germany, and Stalin's Russia in U.S. films, magazine and newspaper articles, books, plays, speeches, and other texts, Benjamin Alpers traces changing American understandings of dictatorship from the la
Author: Daron Acemoglu
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9780521855266
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book develops a framework for analyzing the creation and consolidation of democracy. Different social groups prefer different political institutions because of the way they allocate political power and resources. Thus democracy is preferred by the majority of citizens, but opposed by elites. Dictatorship nevertheless is not stable when citizens can threaten social disorder and revolution. In response, when the costs of repression are sufficiently high and promises of concessions are not credible, elites may be forced to create democracy. By democratizing, elites credibly transfer political power to the citizens, ensuring social stability. Democracy consolidates when elites do not have strong incentive to overthrow it. These processes depend on (1) the strength of civil society, (2) the structure of political institutions, (3) the nature of political and economic crises, (4) the level of economic inequality, (5) the structure of the economy, and (6) the form and extent of globalization.
Author: Natasha M. Ezrow
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2011-02-24
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 144117396X
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Author: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Publisher: Public Affairs
Published: 2011-09-27
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 161039044X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explains the theory of political survival, particularly in cases of dictators and despotic governments, arguing that political leaders seek to stay in power using any means necessary, most commonly by attending to the interests of certain coalitions.
Author: John Ehrenberg
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Offers an analysis of Marx's controversial theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat, arguing that it can no longer be displaced or ignored as the viable democratic centre of Marxist political thought. The book traces the development of the theory from the early work of Marx and Engels to 1924.