Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

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.

Despotism --- Political stability. --- Political persecution. --- Legitimacy of governments. --- Governments, Legitimacy of --- Legitimacy (Constitutional law) --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Revolutions --- Sovereignty --- State, The --- General will --- Political stability --- Regime change --- Political repression --- Repression, Political --- Persecution --- Civil rights --- Destabilization (Political science) --- Political instability --- Stability, Political --- Legitimacy of governments --- Absolutism --- Autocracy --- Tyranny --- Authoritarianism --- Dictatorship --- Totalitarianism --- Philosophy. --- Cooptation. --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Election law --- Elections

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

How do dictatorships justify their rule and with what effects ? This and similar questions guide the contributions to this edited volume. Despite the recent resurgence of political science scholarship on autocratic resilience, many questions remain unanswered about the role of legitimation in contemporary non-democracies and its relationship with neighbouring concepts, like ideology, censorship, and consent. The overarching thesis of this book is that autocratic legitimation has causal influence on numerous outcomes of interest in authoritarian politics. These outcomes include regime resilience, challenger-state interactions, the procedures and operations of elections, social service provision, and the texture of everyday life in autocracies.

DICTATORSHIP --- AUTHORITARIANISM

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)