The Digital Origins Of Dictatorship And Democracy

Author : Philip N. Howard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199780303

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The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy by Philip N. Howard Pdf

Around the developing world, political leaders face a dilemma: the very information and communication technologies that boost economic fortunes also undermine power structures. Globally, one in ten internet users is a Muslim living in a populous Muslim community. In these countries, young people are developing political identities online, and digital technologies are helping civil society build systems of political communication independent of the state and beyond easy manipulation by cultural or religious elites. With unique data on patterns of media ownership and technology use, The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy demonstrates how, since the mid-1990s, information technologies have had a role in political transformation. Democratic revolutions are not caused by new information technologies. But in the Muslim world, democratization is no longer possible without them.

Author : Daron Acemoglu,James A. Robinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:804713407

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Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy by Daron Acemoglu,James A. Robinson Pdf

Author : Philip N. Howard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199813667

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The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy by Philip N. Howard Pdf

Around the developing world, political leaders face a dilemma: the very information and communication technologies that boost economic fortunes also undermine power structures. Globally, one in ten internet users is a Muslim living in a populous Muslim community. In these countries, young people are developing political identities online, and digital technologies are helping civil society build systems of political communication independent of the state and beyond easy manipulation by cultural or religious elites. With unique data on patterns of media ownership and technology use, The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy demonstrates how, since the mid-1990s, information technologies have had a role in political transformation. Democratic revolutions are not caused by new information technologies. But in the Muslim world, democratization is no longer possible without them.

Author : Steven Feldstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190057497

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The Rise of Digital Repression by Steven Feldstein Pdf

"A Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Book" -- dust jacket.

Author : Larry Diamond,Marc F. Plattner
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781421405681

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Liberation Technology by Larry Diamond,Marc F. Plattner Pdf

Liberation Technology brings together cutting-edge scholarship from scholars and practitioners at the forefront of this burgeoning field of study. An introductory section defines the debate with a foundational piece on liberation technology and is then followed by essays discussing the popular dichotomy of liberation'' versus "control" with regard to the Internet and the sociopolitical dimensions of such controls. Additional chapters delve into the cases of individual countries: China, Egypt, Iran, and Tunisia.

Author : Philip N. Howard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521847494

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New Media Campaigns and the Managed Citizen by Philip N. Howard Pdf

A critical assessment of the role that information technologies have come to play in contemporary campaigns.

Author : Philip N. Howard,Muzammil M. Hussain
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199323654

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Democracy's Fourth Wave? by Philip N. Howard,Muzammil M. Hussain Pdf

Did digital media really "cause" the Arab Spring, or is it an important factor of the story behind what might become democracy's fourth wave? An unlikely network of citizens used digital media to start a cascade of social protest that ultimately toppled four of the world's most entrenched dictators. Howard and Hussain find that the complex causal recipe includes several economic, political and cultural factors, but that digital media is consistently one of the most important sufficient and necessary conditions for explaining both the fragility of regimes and the success of social movements. This book looks at not only the unexpected evolution of events during the Arab Spring, but the deeper history of creative digital activism throughout the region.

Author : Benjamin Leontief Alpers
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807854166

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Dictators, Democracy, and American Public Culture by Benjamin Leontief 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 la

Author : Lucy Bernholz,Hélène Landemore,Rob Reich
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226748603

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Digital Technology and Democratic Theory by Lucy Bernholz,Hélène Landemore,Rob Reich Pdf

One of the most far-reaching transformations in our era is the wave of digital technologies rolling over—and upending—nearly every aspect of life. Work and leisure, family and friendship, community and citizenship have all been modified by now-ubiquitous digital tools and platforms. Digital Technology and Democratic Theory looks closely at one significant facet of our rapidly evolving digital lives: how technology is radically changing our lives as citizens and participants in democratic governments. To understand these transformations, this book brings together contributions by scholars from multiple disciplines to wrestle with the question of how digital technologies shape, reshape, and affect fundamental questions about democracy and democratic theory. As expectations have whiplashed—from Twitter optimism in the wake of the Arab Spring to Facebook pessimism in the wake of the 2016 US election—the time is ripe for a more sober and long-term assessment. How should we take stock of digital technologies and their promise and peril for reshaping democratic societies and institutions? To answer, this volume broaches the most pressing technological changes and issues facing democracy as a philosophy and an institution.

Author : Sheri Berman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199373208

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Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe by Sheri Berman Pdf

At the end of the twentieth century, many believed the story of European political development had come to an end. Modern democracy began in Europe, but for hundreds of years it competed with various forms of dictatorship. Now, though, the entire continent was in the democratic camp for the first time in history. But within a decade, this story had already begun to unravel. Some of the continent's newer democracies slid back towards dictatorship, while citizens in many of its older democracies began questioning democracy's functioning and even its legitimacy. And of course it is not merely in Europe where democracy is under siege. Across the globe the immense optimism accompanying the post-Cold War democratic wave has been replaced by pessimism. Many new democracies in Latin America, Africa, and Asia began "backsliding," while the Arab Spring quickly turned into the Arab winter. The victory of Donald Trump led many to wonder if it represented a threat to the future of liberal democracy in the United States. Indeed, it is increasingly common today for leaders, intellectuals, commentators and others to claim that rather than democracy, some form dictatorship or illiberal democracy is the wave of the future. In Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe, Sheri Berman traces the long history of democracy in its cradle, Europe. She explains that in fact, just about every democratic wave in Europe initially failed, either collapsing in upon itself or succumbing to the forces of reaction. Yet even when democratic waves failed, there were always some achievements that lasted. Even the most virulently reactionary regimes could not suppress every element of democratic progress. Panoramic in scope, Berman takes readers through two centuries of turmoil: revolution, fascism, civil war, and - -finally -- the emergence of liberal democratic Europe in the postwar era. A magisterial retelling of modern European political history, Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe not explains how democracy actually develops, but how we should interpret the current wave of illiberalism sweeping Europe and the rest of the world.

Author : Aim Sinpeng
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472038480

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Opposing Democracy in the Digital Age by Aim Sinpeng Pdf

Opposing Democracy in the Digital Age is about why ordinary people in a democratizing state oppose democracy and how they leverage both traditional and social media to do so. Aim Sinpeng focuses on the people behind popular, large-scale antidemocratic movements that helped bring down democracy in 2006 and 2014 in Thailand. The yellow shirts (PAD—People’s Alliance for Democracy) that are the focus of the book are antidemocratic movements grown out of democratic periods in Thailand, but became the catalyst for the country’s democratic breakdown. Why, when, and how supporters of these movements mobilize offline and online to bring down democracy are some of the key questions that Sinpeng answers. While the book primarily uses a qualitative methodological approach, it also uses several quantitative tools to analyze social media data in the later chapters. This is one of few studies in the field of regime transition that focuses on antidemocratic mobilization and takes the role of social media seriously.

Author : Mariam Mufti,Sahar Shafqat,Niloufer Siddiqui
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781626167711

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Pakistan's Political Parties by Mariam Mufti,Sahar Shafqat,Niloufer Siddiqui Pdf

Pakistan’s 2018 general elections marked the second successful transfer of power from one elected civilian government to another—a remarkable achievement considering the country’s history of dictatorial rule. Pakistan’s Political Parties examines how the civilian side of the state’s current regime has survived the transition to democracy, providing critical insight into the evolution of political parties in Pakistan and their role in developing democracies in general. Pakistan’s numerous political parties span the ideological spectrum, as well as represent diverse regional, ethnic, and religious constituencies. The essays in this volume explore the way in which these parties both contend and work with Pakistan’s military-bureaucratic establishment to assert and expand their power. Researchers use interviews, surveys, data, and ethnography to illuminate the internal dynamics and motivations of these groups and the mechanisms through which they create policy and influence state and society. Pakistan’s Political Parties is a one-of-a-kind resource for diplomats, policymakers, journalists, and scholars searching for a comprehensive overview of Pakistan’s party system and its unlikely survival against an interventionist military, with insights that extend far beyond the region.

Author : Barry K. Gills,Kevin Gray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317967439

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People Power in an Era of Global Crisis by Barry K. Gills,Kevin Gray Pdf

A quarter of a century has now passed since the historic popular uprising that led to the overthrow of the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines. The mass movement known as the "People Power Revolution" was not only pivotal to the democratic transition within the Philippines, but it also became an inspiration for subsequent mass movements leading to further democratic transitions throughout the Third World and in the former Communist bloc in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. However, the neoliberal economic policies subsequently pursued by newly democratic governments throughout the Third World led all but the most celebratory observers to note the constrained and limited nature of these formal political transitions. This volume poses the question of the extent to which ‘people power’ has been able to play an active role resisting neoliberalism and deepen substantive democracy and social justice. Through a series of case studies of the regions and individual countries of Asia, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe, the contributions in the volume provide a new set of original and in-depth critical assessments of the nature of the longer-term impact of the democratic transitions commencing in the 1980s and continuing until the present, and questioning their impact and potential influence on human dignity, freedom, justice, and self-determination, and thus opening new avenues of enquiry into the future of democracy. This book was originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.

Author : Mahmood Monshipouri
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107140769

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Information Politics, Protests, and Human Rights in the Digital Age by Mahmood Monshipouri Pdf

This edited collection offers a fresh perspective on how a quiet digital revolution from below spreads throughout the world.

Author : Steven Levitsky,Lucan Way
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691223575

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Revolution and Dictatorship by Steven Levitsky,Lucan Way Pdf

Why the world’s most resilient dictatorships are products of violent revolution Revolution and Dictatorship explores why dictatorships born of social revolution—such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam—are extraordinarily durable, even in the face of economic crisis, large-scale policy failure, mass discontent, and intense external pressure. Few other modern autocracies have survived in the face of such extreme challenges. Drawing on comparative historical analysis, Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way argue that radical efforts to transform the social and geopolitical order trigger intense counterrevolutionary conflict, which initially threatens regime survival, but ultimately fosters the unity and state-building that supports authoritarianism. Although most revolutionary governments begin weak, they challenge powerful domestic and foreign actors, often bringing about civil or external wars. These counterrevolutionary wars pose a threat that can destroy new regimes, as in the cases of Afghanistan and Cambodia. Among regimes that survive, however, prolonged conflicts give rise to a cohesive ruling elite and a powerful and loyal coercive apparatus. This leads to the downfall of rival organizations and alternative centers of power, such as armies, churches, monarchies, and landowners, and helps to inoculate revolutionary regimes against elite defection, military coups, and mass protest—three principal sources of authoritarian breakdown. Looking at a range of revolutionary and nonrevolutionary regimes from across the globe, Revolution and Dictatorship shows why governments that emerge from violent conflict endure.