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How Dictatorships Work

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

How Dictatorships Work

By Los Angeles) Geddes Barbara (University of California, Joseph (Pennsylvania State University) Wright, Erica (Michigan State University) Frantz

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About the book

This accessible volume shines a light on how autocracy really works by providing basic facts about how post-World War II dictatorships achieve, retain, and lose power. The authors present an evidence-based portrait of key features of the authoritarian landscape with newly collected data about 200 dictatorial regimes. They examine the central political processes that shape the policy choices of dictatorships and how they compel reaction from policy makers in the rest of the world. Importantly, th...Show more

Comparative politics

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9781107535954

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Cambridge University Press

Published year

2018

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