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Proceeding from materials relating to the “Time of Troubles”, this article examines the phenomenon of imposture (samozvanchestvo) as one of the symbols of Russian political history from the early 17th to the mid-19th century.
Ilya Kalinin
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Democracy, autocracy and the likelihood of international conflict [PDF]
Democracy, Autocracy, War, Maximal equilibrium, D72, D74, D82,
Thomas Tangerås +2 more
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Do Autocracy and Fragility Connect?
Development practitioners navigate their way through the volatile and frequently violent contexts of the fragile states where they work. Often, they contend with obstructive and unaccountable authoritarian regimes.
Robin Luckham (19284427)
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En el nombre del pueblo: consolidación autocrática subnacional en Cuba
The text analyzes the democraticity of decision-making processes on local level public affairs in Cuba, emphasizing the examination of citizens’ capacities to influence the conditions that sustain decision-making and public debates. The study reveals the
Hans Carrillo Guach
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GDP PER CAPITA, PROTEST INTENSITY AND REGIME TYPE: A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS
The study suggests that the relationship between per capita GDP and intensity of antigovernment demonstrations is not negative as tends to be believed; we are rather dealing with an inverted U-shaped relationship: the highest levels of antigovernment ...
A. V. Korotayev +2 more
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The discourse of autocracy in Tiberian literature [PDF]
This thesis examines the discourse of autocracy in the Latin literature of the Tiberian Principate. In four case studies I examine the texts of Velleius Paterculus, Seneca the Elder and Valerius Maximus, and explore how these writers adapted and engaged ...
Crump, Elizabeth
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Around 1948: The “Gentle Revolution” and Art History
Just like after World War I Italy experienced a transition from modernism to fascism, after World II Poland experienced a passage from modernism to quasi-communism. The symbol of the first stage of the communist revolution in Poland right after the war,
Anna Markowska
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ОФІЦІЙНА ПОЛІТИЧНА ПОЗИЦІЯ РИМО-КАТОЛИЦЬКОГО ДУХОВЕНСТВА ПРАВОБЕРЕЖНОЇ УКРАЇНИ ЩОДО РОСІЙСЬКОГО САМОДЕРЖАВСТВА У XIX — НА ПОЧАТКУ XX ст. [PDF]
The purpose of this article is deep analysis of the Rome-Catholic Church political position in the Right-Bank Ukraine to Russian autocracy in the 19th— early 20th ct.
Хитровська Ю. В.
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A theory of informational autocracy
Abstract We develop an informational theory of autocracy. Dictators survive not by means of force or ideology but because they convince the public—rightly or wrongly—that they are competent. Citizens do not observe the leader's type but infer it from signals in their living standards, state propaganda, and messages sent by an informed elite via ...
Guriev, Sergei, Treisman, Daniel
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Bakalaura darba “Informatīvā autokrātija” mērķis ir definēt, apzināt un novērtēt dezinformācijas, cenzūras, slepenas vardarbības un informatīvās elites kooptācijas lomu informatīvās autokrātijas režīma fenomenā.
Ņizkodubovs, Andrejs
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