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Economics of Governance, 2009
In this paper, we consider a simple model capable of explaining why some dictatorships choose to extract rents via seemingly inefficient institutions. In particular, this paper focuses on institutions associated with high levels of corruption and examines the conditions under which such institutions could serve the interests of a dictatorship ...
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In this paper, we consider a simple model capable of explaining why some dictatorships choose to extract rents via seemingly inefficient institutions. In particular, this paper focuses on institutions associated with high levels of corruption and examines the conditions under which such institutions could serve the interests of a dictatorship ...
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Social Dynamics, 2009
This article discusses recent developments in South African politics from the perspective of a paradox, even a contradiction, inherent in the democratic project itself. Democracy requires that the people, the source of democratic authority, are considered purely as an ideal. This is precisely what is at work in the notion of ‘human rights’, for example.
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This article discusses recent developments in South African politics from the perspective of a paradox, even a contradiction, inherent in the democratic project itself. Democracy requires that the people, the source of democratic authority, are considered purely as an ideal. This is precisely what is at work in the notion of ‘human rights’, for example.
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Democracy and dictatorship revisited
, 2010J. A. Cheibub, J. Gandhi, J. Vreeland
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World Politics, 1951
For the political scientist in America there can scarcely be a more fascinating or more elusive study than the Soviet Union. The first enticement is the menacing importance of Soviet power. Then there is the miracle which in a single generation has changed a defeated and disintegrating agrarian society into one of the two greatest industrial and ...
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For the political scientist in America there can scarcely be a more fascinating or more elusive study than the Soviet Union. The first enticement is the menacing importance of Soviet power. Then there is the miracle which in a single generation has changed a defeated and disintegrating agrarian society into one of the two greatest industrial and ...
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On the Dictatorship of the Bourgeoisie
Monthly Review, 1982Review of Working for Capitalism by Richard M. Pfeffer.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
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Russian Education & Society, 1994
The Eureka-Development Conference was supposed to open on August 20, in closed Cheliabinsk-70, and it did. The representatives of the left-wing teachers' movement, not yet knowing that the right-wing coup was going to fizzle, continued to learn to teach.
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The Eureka-Development Conference was supposed to open on August 20, in closed Cheliabinsk-70, and it did. The representatives of the left-wing teachers' movement, not yet knowing that the right-wing coup was going to fizzle, continued to learn to teach.
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1994
The Bonapartist dictatorship did not spring fully grown from the coup d’etat of Brumaire; it took four years to develop. At first, as we have seen, Bonaparte was compelled to negotiate, first with the brumairiens who had helped him into power, and then with the Pope to secure religious peace.
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The Bonapartist dictatorship did not spring fully grown from the coup d’etat of Brumaire; it took four years to develop. At first, as we have seen, Bonaparte was compelled to negotiate, first with the brumairiens who had helped him into power, and then with the Pope to secure religious peace.
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2008
September 11, 1973, La Moneda, the Chilean presidential palace in Santiago, was bombed by military airplanes; smoke rose from the debris while democracy was annihilated. On December 22, 1989, the first-ever televised revolution was aired; shots were fired as the last soviet satellite, Romania, collapsed.
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September 11, 1973, La Moneda, the Chilean presidential palace in Santiago, was bombed by military airplanes; smoke rose from the debris while democracy was annihilated. On December 22, 1989, the first-ever televised revolution was aired; shots were fired as the last soviet satellite, Romania, collapsed.
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