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The Two Logics of Autocratic Rule

作者：Johannes Gerschewski

出版社：Cambridge University Press

出版年：2023-4-13

ISBN：9781009199414

所属分类：行业好书

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内容简介

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 complement each other depends on alternative logics: over-politicization and de-politicization. While the former aims at mobilizing people via inflating a friend-foe distinction, the latter renders the people passive and apathetic, relying instead on performance-driven forms of legitimation. Gerschewski supports this two-logics theory with the empirical analysis of forty-five autocratic regime episodes in East Asia since the end of World War II. In simultaneously synthesizing and extending existing research on non-democracies, this book proposes an innovative way to understand autocratic rule that goes beyond the classic distinction between totalitarian and authoritarian regimes. It will be of interest to scholars and students of comparative politics, political theory, and East Asian politics.

作品目录

Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations
Part I: Introduction
Autocracies as “Organized Certainty”?
Part II: Theory
1 Explaining Autocratic Stability
2 Legitimation
3 Repression
4 Co-optation
5 The Two Logics of Autocratic Rule
Part III: Empirical Test
6 East Asia as a Testing Field
7 Empirical Explorations
8 A Systematic Test
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Part IV: Conclusion 213
A Macro-Theory of Autocratic Rule 215
Appendices 229 References 267 Index 292
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作者简介

Johannes Gerschewski is a Research Fellow at the Global Governance Unit, WZB Berlin Social Science Center. He works on democratic and autocratic theory, concept building, and questions of political ideologies. His research has appeared in the American Political Science Review, Perspectives on Politics, and Comparative Political Studies. He was awarded the 2013 Frank Cass Award ...

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