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Free Download Natasha Lindstaedt, "Research Handbook on Authoritarianism"
English | ISBN: 1802204814 | 2024 | 424 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This Research Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the latest knowledge on authoritarian regimes. Combining quantitative research and in-depth case studies, it not only provides novel insights into past and current dictatorships but also forecasts potential new developments in authoritarian politics.

Free Download Rico Isaacs, "Political Opposition in Authoritarianism: Exit, Voice and Loyalty in Kazakhstan "
English | ISBN: 3031065352 | 2022 | 173 pages | PDF | 3 MB
How might political opposition shape regime outcomes over time in an authoritarian system? Most studies on political opposition in authoritarian contexts tend to focus on the agency of the regime over and above that of the political opposition. Using Albert Hirschman’s framework of exit, voice and loyalty, this book examines the case of Kazakhstani opposition agency over 30 years to explore the extent to which political opposition in Kazakhstan has shaped the dynamics of authoritarian regime development in the country. What the analysis reveals is that in Kazakhstan the regime has tended to treat formal institutional political opposition as neither a credible nor non-credible threat. Consequently, the Kazakhstani regime has always responded to opposition exit and voice with sanctions and institutional adaption which strengthened the regime in the short to medium term, but left them exposed to spontaneous, grassroots non-institutional opposition in the longer term. This spontaneous grassroots opposition emerged in Kazakhstan as a series of ‘shocks’ crystalised in the 2011 events in Zhanaozen, the 2016 land protests, the 2019 election protests and the events of ‘

Free Download Anna Schwenck, "Flexible Authoritarianism: Cultivating Ambition and Loyalty in Russia "
English | ISBN: 0197751598 | 2023 | 336 pages | EPUB | 2 MB

Free Download Bob Altemeyer, "Right-Wing Authoritarianism"
English | ISBN: 0887558836 | | 364 pages | PDF | 34 MB
Altemeyer begins by closely examining the scientific literature on right-wing authoritarianism. This timely volume surveys the history of social psychological research on right-wing authoritarianism and describes a more fruitful direction for future work. It concludes with a disturbing comment on the pervasiveness of authoritarian behaviour in our society.

Free Download Professor Filip Reyntjens, "Aid and Authoritarianism in Africa: Development without Democracy"
English | 2016 | pages: 192 | ISBN: 1783606282 | EPUB | 1,0 mb
In 2013 almost half of Africa’s top aid recipients were ruled by authoritarian regimes. While the West may claim to promote democracy and human rights, in practice major bilateral and international donors, such as USAID, DFID, the World Bank and the European Commission, have seen their aid policies become ever more entangled with the survival of their authoritarian protégés. Local citizens thus find themselves at the receiving end of a compromise between aid agencies and government elites, in which development policies are shaped in the interests of maintaining the status quo.

Free Download Antonio Costa Pinto, Leonardo Morlino, "Dealing with the Legacy of Authoritarianism: The "Politics of the Past" in Southern European Democracies"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0415587085, 0415846935 | EPUB | pages: 200 | 1.2 mb
In recent years the agenda of how to ‘deal with the past’ has become a central dimension of the quality of contemporary democracies. Many years after the process of authoritarian breakdown, consolidated democracies revisit the past either symbolically or to punish the elites associated with the previous authoritarian regimes. New factors, like international environment, conditionality, party cleavages, memory cycles and commemorations or politics of apologies, do sometimes bring the past back into the political arena.

Free Download Dennis C. Canterbury, "Neoliberal Democratization and New Authoritarianism"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0815390602, 1138356557 | EPUB | pages: 216 | 0.6 mb
Originally published in 2005. Domestic and foreign economic and political policies in the rich capitalist nations in the North and in the poor countries in the South are geared towards globalization and democratization. Indeed the dominant view held by countries in the North is that globalization leads to democracy and vice versa, and that in turn economic development will result from that process. Thus many scarce resources are allocated to bring about globalization and democracy. Exploring the dynamics of change that allow for the persistence of authoritarian states in the Third World, this illuminating book highlights certain aspects of democratization that have not been investigated fully. Anyone interested in development politics and political sociology will draw a plethora of important theoretical insights into globalization, authoritarianism and transition/democratization from this original study.

Free Download Anthony W. Pereira, "Political (In)Justice: Authoritarianism and the Rule of Law in Brazil, Chile, and Argentina"
English | 2005 | pages: 281 | ISBN: 0822958856 | PDF | 1,3 mb
Why do attempts by authoritarian regimes to legalize their political repression differ so dramatically? Why do some dispense with the law altogether, while others scrupulously modify constitutions, pass new laws, and organize political trials? Political (In)Justice answers these questions by comparing the legal aspects of political repression in three recent military regimes: Brazil (1964-1985); Chile (1973-1990); and Argentina (1976-1983). By focusing on political trials as a reflection of each regime’s overall approach to the law, Anthony Pereira argues that the practice of each regime can be explained by examining the long-term relationship between the judiciary and the military. Brazil was marked by a high degree of judicial-military integration and cooperation; Chile’s military essentially usurped judicial authority; and in Argentina, the military negated the judiciary altogether. Pereira extends the judicial-military framework to other authoritarian regimes-Salazar’s Portugal, Hitler’s Germany, and Franco’s Spain-and a democracy (the United States), to illuminate historical and contemporary aspects of state coercion and the rule of law.

Free Download Ammar Ali Jan, "Rule by Fear: Eight Theses on Authoritarianism in Pakistan"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 9697834350 | EPUB | pages: 172 | 0.3 mb
Why have democratic institutions and norms not taken root in Pakistan? In these polemical essays, Ammar Jan presents eight theses to explain the political, economic and social roots of authoritarianism in the country. Rather than fixating on particular individuals or governments, this work focuses on the structural features propelling the rising militarization of society. Jan locates the deep fear of the masses held by ruling classes and state officials as a critical point of departure to grasp the pervasive disregard for popular sovereignty. This paranoia has created a permanent state of emergency in Pakistan that is used to deploy excessive violence against popular challenges to the status quo. To fight back against this failing order, the book calls for the construction of alternative ideas that can unite disparate movements struggling for justice and dignity.

Free Download Jennifer Harford Vargas, "Forms of Dictatorship: Power, Narrative, and Authoritarianism in the Latina/o Novel "
English | ISBN: 0190642858 | 2017 | 280 pages | PDF | 6 MB
An intra-ethnic study of Latina/o fiction written in the United States from the early 1990s to the present, Forms of Dictatorship examines novels that depict the historical reality of dictatorship and exploit dictatorship as a literary trope. This literature constitutes a new sub-genre of Latina/o fiction, which the author calls the Latina/o dictatorship novel. The book illuminates Latina/os’ central contributions to the literary history of the dictatorship novel by analyzing how Latina/o writers with national origin roots in the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central and South America imaginatively represent authoritarianism. The novels collectively generate what Harford Vargas terms a "Latina/o counter-dictatorial imaginary" that positions authoritarianism on a continuum of domination alongside imperialism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, neoliberalism, and border militarization. Focusing on novels by writers such as Junot Díaz, Héctor Tobar, Cristina García, Salvador Plascencia,