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Democrats and Autocrats

2015
1. Introduction 2. Explaining within country pathways of Subnational Undemocratic Regime continuity 3. Conceptualizing, Measuring, And Mapping Subnational Undemocratic Regimes 4. Presidential Power In Argentina and Mexico: Fiscal and Partisan Instruments of Cooptation 5.
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Lincoln's Autocrat

2015
Edwin M. Stanton (1814–1869), one of the nineteenth century's most impressive legal and political minds, wielded enormous influence and power as Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of War during most of the Civil War and under Andrew Johnson during the early years of Reconstruction.
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Conceptualizing autocratization

This chapter provides an extensive discussion of the concept of autocratization. It first discusses the reasons explaining the recent and rapid development of autocratization studies. It then provides a detailed discussion about this concept, its definitions, properties, scope, and limitation.
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Information for Autocrats

2015
This book investigates the new representation unfolding in Chinese local congresses. Drawing qualitative fieldwork and data analysis from original surveys of 5,130 township, county, and municipal congressmen and women and constituents, Melanie Manion shows the priorities and problems of ordinary Chinese significantly influence both who gets elected to ...
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Autocratic Legalism

Abstract Though autocracy is often defined by arbitrary and unrestrained rule, many autocrats deliberately enshrine their power in law. A vast and growing body of research among scholars of political science and socio-legal history has examined these themes, showing the myriad ways in which laws can form the backbone of ...
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Tiberius the Autocrat

2018
This chapter shows how Tacitus’ treatment of the early principate of Tiberius in Annals books 1–2 lays the foundation for the problems of Roman religion that will shape the rest of his account. The deification of Augustus is an important part of Tiberius’ consolidation of his political position, but also encourages the living emperor’s subjects to ...
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