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Diverging roads: Democracy, anocracy, autocracy, dictatorship?

Possibility Studies & Society, 2022
Some nations of the world have fallen into autocracy or outright dictatorship. Others are democracies, anocracies (quasi-democracies with features of both democracies and autocracies), or pseudo-democracies (autocracies pretending to be democracies ...
R. Sternberg, Christian Fischer
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A Constitutional Dictatorship

, 2021
This chapter examines state repression and the discourse that served as its justification. It discusses the prime minister’s modus operandi of making democracy dependent on discipline and deeming any dissent to be anti-national.
C. Jaffrelot, Pratinav Anil
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India's First Dictatorship

, 2021
In June 1975 Prime Minister Indira Gandhi imposed a state of emergency, resulting in a twenty-one-month suspension of democracy. Jaffrelot and Anil revisit the Emergency to re-evaluate characterisations of India as the ‘world’s largest democracy.’ They ...
C. Jaffrelot, Pratinav Anil
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Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe

, 2021
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, dictatorship rather than democracy had been the norm.
Sheri Berman
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Random Serial Dictatorship: The One and Only

Mathematics of Operations Research, 2020
Fix a Pareto-optimal, strategy-proof, and nonbossy deterministic matching mechanism and define a random matching mechanism by assigning agents to the roles in the mechanism via a uniform lottery.
Sophie Bade
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Book review: Sheri Berman, Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe: From the Ancien Régime to the Present Day

, 2020
Sheri Berman, Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe: From the Ancien Régime to the Present Day. Oxford University Press, 2019, pp. 560, US$34.95. ISBN: 9780199373192 (Hardback).
Neville D’Cunha
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Haiti: from dictatorship to dictatorship

Race & Class, 1988
Since the ousting of Baby Doc under mass, popular pressure in 1986, and the assumption of power by a military junta - ostensibly to oversee the passage to civilian government - the struggle in Haiti for even minimal justice and democracy has continued.
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The Human Rights Dictatorship

, 2020
Ned Richardson-Little exposes the forgotten history of human rights in the German Democratic Republic, placing the history of the Cold War, Eastern European dissidents and the revolutions of 1989 in a new light.
Ned Richardson-Little
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The Dictatorship of the Popes

Kyklos, 2013
SummaryThis paper takes the view that theocracies are essentially a form of dictatorship and verifies whether this interpretation is empirically supported when applied to the longest lasting example of theocracy, the temporal power of the Popes.
Ronald Wintrobe, Fabio Padovano, Fabio Padovano   +2 more
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Accessing the state: Executive constraints and credible commitment in dictatorship

Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2019
When do executive constraints provide credible commitment power in dictatorships, and under what conditions do leaders establish such constraints? This article argues that institutions successfully constrain autocrats only when elites are given real ...
Anne Meng
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