This late 2017 report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. In April 2016 the Saudi Arabian government announced Vision 2030 a highly ambitious reform program designed to move the country away from its reliance on oil... Lees meer.

The first leadership style children are introduced to is Autocratic leadership. Listen to Parent Teachers Police Adults. Do as I say. This book series is a hero journey that follows three children as we discover the positives of Autocratic Leadership the negatives o... Lees meer.

As political polarization societal decomposition and the collusive tendencies grow in strength political factions and political candidates in western societiescan be come drawn to autocratic actors. This book investigates complex regressive dynamics in contemporary... Lees meer.

When protests erupted in response to the 2010 Egyptian parliament elections that were widely viewed as fraudulent many wondered. Why now. Voters had never witnessed free and fair elections in the past so why did these elicit such an outcry. To answer this question... Lees meer.

After the gradual slowing down of the third wave of democratization electoral authoritarianism is rapidly emerging as a dominant form of contemporary autocracy. Political parties play a key role within the political and institutional structures of electoral autocracie... Lees meer.

Using North Korea Burma Myanmar and China as case studies this book explains how the authoritarian public sphere shapes political discourse in each context and examines three domains of subversion of ruling ideologies. the shadow markets of North Korea networks of i... Lees meer.

How middle-class economic dependence on the state impedes democratization and contributes to authoritarian resilience Conventional wisdom holds that the rising middle classes are a force for democracy. Yet in post-Soviet countries like Russia where the middle class has... Lees meer.

Dictatorships attempt to justify their rule in numerous ways. This book is about how they do so and why it matters. The chapters were originally published in a special issue of Contemporary Politics. How do dictatorships justify their rule and with what effects. Th... Lees meer.

Republic Earth s core argument is stark. the growing threat posed by authoritarianism and the autocratic Shanghai Cooperation Organization led by China and Russia threatens the emergence of a new democratic global society in the 21st century. Republic Earth Organis... Lees meer.

Dictatorships attempt to justify their rule in numerous ways. This book is about how they do so and why it matters. The chapters were originally published in a special issue of Contemporary Politics. How do dictatorships justify their rule and with what effects. Th... Lees meer.

In The Two Logics of Autocratic Rule Gerschewski argues that all autocracies must fulfil three conditions to survive. the co-optation of key elites into their inner sanctum the repression of potential dissent and popular legitimation. Yet how these conditions compl... Lees meer.

This book suggests a theoretical framework for the non-democratic and illiberal donors of foreign aid and tests the empirical support of this framework. It aims to examine the foreign aid motivation and preferences of non-democratic and illiberal countries. The study a... Lees meer.

Authoritarian regimes craft and disseminate reasons stories and explanations for why they are entitled to rule. To shield those legitimating messages from criticism authoritarian regimes also censor information that they find threatening. While committed opponents of... Lees meer.

Republic Earth s core argument is stark. the growing threat posed by authoritarianism and the autocratic Shanghai Cooperation Organization led by China and Russia threatens the emergence of a new democratic global society in the 21st century.... Lees meer.

As political polarization societal decomposition and the collusive tendencies grow in strength political factions and political candidates in western societiescan be come drawn to autocratic actors. This book investigates complex regressive dynamics in contemporary... Lees meer.