Social Dictatorships

Author : Ferdinand Eibl
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780198834274

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Social Dictatorships by Ferdinand Eibl Pdf

Why have social spending levels and social policy trajectories diverged so drastically across labour-abundant Middle Eastern and North African regimes? And how can we explain the marked persistence of spending levels after divergence? Using historical institutionalism and a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods Social Dictatorships: The Political Economy of the Welfare State in the Middle East and North Africa develops an explanation of social spending in authoritarian regimes. It emphasizes the importance of early elite conflict and attempts to form a durable support coalition under the constraints imposed by external threats and scarce resources. Social Dictatorships utilizes two in-depth case studies of the political origins of the Tunisian and Egyptian welfare state to provide an empirical overview of how social policies have developed in the region, and to explain the marked differences in social policy trajectories. It follows a multi-level approach tested comparatively at the cross-country level and process-traced at micro-level by these case studies.

Author : Barrington Moore
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1993-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0807050733

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Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy by Barrington Moore Pdf

This classic work of comparative history explores why some countries have developed as democracies and others as fascist or communist dictatorships Originally published in 1966, this classic text is a comparative survey of some of what Barrington Moore considers the major and most indicative world economies as they evolved out of pre-modern political systems into industrialism. But Moore is not ultimately concerned with explaining economic development so much as exploring why modes of development produced different political forms that managed the transition to industrialism and modernization. Why did one society modernize into a "relatively free," democratic society (by which Moore means England)? Why did others metamorphose into fascist or communist states? His core thesis is that in each country, the relationship between the landlord class and the peasants was a primary influence on the ultimate form of government the society arrived at upon arrival in its modern age. “Throughout the book, there is the constant play of a mind that is scholarly, original, and imbued with the rarest gift of all, a deep sense of human reality . . . This book will influence a whole generation of young American historians and lead them to problems of the greatest significance.” —The New York Review of Books

Author : Barrington Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:60900653

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Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy by Barrington Moore Pdf

Author : Ferdinand Eibl
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780192571076

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Social Dictatorships by Ferdinand Eibl Pdf

Why have social spending levels and social policy trajectories diverged so drastically across labour-abundant Middle Eastern and North African regimes? And how can we explain the marked persistence of spending levels after divergence? Using historical institutionalism and a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods Social Dictatorships: The Political Economy of the Welfare State in the Middle East and North Africa develops an explanation of social spending in authoritarian regimes. It emphasizes the importance of early elite conflict and attempts to form a durable support coalition under the constraints imposed by external threats and scarce resources. Social Dictatorships utilizes two in-depth case studies of the political origins of the Tunisian and Egyptian welfare state to provide an empirical overview of how social policies have developed in the region, and to explain the marked differences in social policy trajectories. It follows a multi-level approach tested comparatively at the cross-country level and process-traced at micro-level by these case studies.

Author : Hal Marcovitz
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1617147915

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Dictatorships by Hal Marcovitz Pdf

Introduces dictatorships, discussing the social, political, economic, religious, and cultural effects, and examining the efforts of various nations to move beyond dictatorships.

Author : Alaa Al Aswany
Publisher : Haus Publishing
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781912208609

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The Dictatorship Syndrome by Alaa Al Aswany Pdf

The study of dictatorship in the West has acquired an almost exotic dimension. But authoritarian regimes remain a painful reality for billions of people worldwide who still live under them, their freedoms violated and their rights abused. They are subject to arbitrary arrest, torture, corruption, ignorance, and injustice. What is the nature of dictatorship? How does it take hold? In what conditions and circumstances is it permitted to thrive? And how do dictators retain power, even when reviled and mocked by those they govern? In this deeply considered and at times provocative short work, Alaa Al Aswany tells us that, as with any disease, to understand the syndrome of dictatorship we must first consider the circumstances of its emergence, along with the symptoms and complications it causes in both the people and the dictator.

Author : Milan Zafirovski
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004459755

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Capitalist Dictatorship by Milan Zafirovski Pdf

Milan Zafirovski identifies and investigates the resurgence of capitalist dictatorship in contemporary society, especially after 2016. This book introduces the concept of capitalist dictatorship to the academic audience for the first time.

Author : Natasha M. Ezrow,Erica Frantz
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781441173966

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Dictators and Dictatorships by Natasha M. Ezrow,Erica Frantz Pdf

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Author : Karl B. Koth
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9781552380314

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Waking the Dictator by Karl B. Koth Pdf

Waking the Dictator is a study of federalism in late nineteenth century Veracruz State. It is also a politico-military analysis and an evaluation of social-revolutionary relations in the epoch of the Porfiriato and the Mexican Revolution. This study is the first modern, comprehensive, and analytical history of the Porfiriato and Mexican Revolution in Veracruz.

Author : Benjamin L. Alpers
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807861226

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Dictators, Democracy, and American Public Culture by Benjamin L. Alpers Pdf

Focusing on portrayals of Mussolini's Italy, Hitler's Germany, and Stalin's Russia in U.S. films, magazine and newspaper articles, books, plays, speeches, and other texts, Benjamin Alpers traces changing American understandings of dictatorship from the late 1920s through the early years of the Cold War. During the early 1930s, most Americans' conception of dictatorship focused on the dictator. Whether viewed as heroic or horrific, the dictator was represented as a figure of great, masculine power and effectiveness. As the Great Depression gripped the United States, a few people--including conservative members of the press and some Hollywood filmmakers--even dared to suggest that dictatorship might be the answer to America's social problems. In the late 1930s, American explanations of dictatorship shifted focus from individual leaders to the movements that empowered them. Totalitarianism became the image against which a view of democracy emphasizing tolerance and pluralism and disparaging mass movements developed. First used to describe dictatorships of both right and left, the term "totalitarianism" fell out of use upon the U.S. entry into World War II. With the war's end and the collapse of the U.S.-Soviet alliance, however, concerns about totalitarianism lay the foundation for the emerging Cold War.

Author : Celia Donert,Ana Kladnik,Martin Sabrow
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9789633864289

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Making Sense of Dictatorship by Celia Donert,Ana Kladnik,Martin Sabrow Pdf

How did political power function in the communist regimes of Central and Eastern Europe after 1945? Making Sense of Dictatorship addresses this question with a particular focus on the acquiescent behavior of the majority of the population until, at the end of the 1980s, their rejection of state socialism and its authoritarian world. The authors refer to the concept of Sinnwelt, the way in which groups and individuals made sense of the world around them. The essays focus on the dynamics of everyday life and the extent to which the relationship between citizens and the state was collaborative or antagonistic. Each chapter addresses a different aspect of life in this period, including modernization, consumption and leisure, and the everyday experiences of “ordinary people,” single mothers, or those adopting alternative lifestyles. Empirically rich and conceptually original, the essays in this volume suggest new ways to understand how people make sense of everyday life under dictatorial regimes.

Author : Barbara Geddes,Joseph Wright,Erica Frantz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108629904

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How Dictatorships Work by Barbara Geddes,Joseph Wright,Erica Frantz Pdf

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, this book explains how some dictators concentrate great power in their own hands at the expense of other members of the dictatorial elite. Dictators who can monopolize decision making in their countries cause much of the erratic, warlike behavior that disturbs the rest of the world. By providing a picture of the central processes common to dictatorships, this book puts the experience of specific countries in perspective, leading to an informed understanding of events and the likely outcome of foreign responses to autocracies.

Author : Armando Razo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015076152613

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Social Foundations of Limited Dictatorship by Armando Razo Pdf

Using the Mexico of the late nineteenth and very early twentieth century as a test case, this book provides both a theory and methodology for the study of policy credibility in dictatorships.

Author : António Costa Pinto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000448856

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Latin American Dictatorships in the Era of Fascism by António Costa Pinto Pdf

Latin American Dictatorships in the Era of Fascism focuses on the reverse-wave of dictatorships that emerged in Latin America during the 1930s and the transnational dissemination of authoritarian institutions in the era of fascism. António Costa Pinto revisits the study of authoritarian alternatives to liberal democracy in 1930s Latin America from the perspective of the diffusion of corporatism in the world of inter-war dictatorships. The book explores what drove the horizontal spread of corporatism in Latin America, the processes and direction of transnational diffusion, and how social and political corporatism became a central set of new institutions utilized by dictatorships during this era. These issues are studied through a transnational and comparative research design to reveal the extent of Latin America’s participation during the corporatist wave which by 1942 had significantly reduced the number of democratic regimes in the world. This book is essential reading for students studying Latin American history, 1930s dictatorships and authoritarianism, and the spread of corporatism.

Author : Nicos Poulantzas
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788731942

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The Crisis of the Dictatorships by Nicos Poulantzas Pdf

The Crisis of the Dictatorships is Nicos Poulantzas's fourth book. It is a compact study, at once topical and theoretical, of the historical end of the reactionary and authoritarian regimes that have dominated much of Southern Europe. Poulantzas applies the categories of his now standard general works - on Political Power and Social Classes, Fascism and Dictatorship, and Classes in Contemporary Capitalism - to the specific social structures and political systems of Portugal, Spain and Greece. The international environment and the internal dynamic of class conflict in each country are surveyed. The book then assesses the ruling bloc, the popular classes and the State apparatus in Portuguese, Greek and Spanish societies. The result is a novel and powerful analysis of the causes of the fall of the Papadopoulous-Ioannides Junta, the overthrow of the Salazarist State, and the crisis of Franco's heirs, that contrasts these with the end of German Nazism and Italian Fascism thirty years ago. The Crisis of the Dictatorships will be essential reading for all who are concerned with the political future of Europe.