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Dictatorships, democracies and the people
Kybernetes, 2009PurposeThe paper aims to consider system and control ideas which are useful in analysing problems in human science.Design/methodology/approachThree arts of dictatorships are considered, namely: dictatorship in a developing country, dictatorship in a developed country and the global dictatorship.
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1996
Abstract One of the great challenges a constitutional democracy faces is to protect itself from those who would impose an authoritarian regime on the polity. The first observation to be made is that no set of institutions is “dictatorship proof.” A constitution is a set of rules written on a piece of paper, or perhaps written into the
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Abstract One of the great challenges a constitutional democracy faces is to protect itself from those who would impose an authoritarian regime on the polity. The first observation to be made is that no set of institutions is “dictatorship proof.” A constitution is a set of rules written on a piece of paper, or perhaps written into the
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Power of Enforcement and Dictatorship
Theory and Decision, 2002zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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Machiavelli and the Problem of Dictatorship
Ratio Juris, 2015AbstractMachiavelli is the first modern political thinker who pays great attention to the magistracy of dictatorship. “Dictatorial authority,” as he puts it, is fundamental to the survival and prosperity of republics: It is the magistracy, the “ordinary mode,” to which they turn to deal with “extraordinary accidents,” political and military emergencies.
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2018
The military undertook a thorough militarization of the city following the 1976 coup, not just in waging the dirty war but by taking control of the government bureaucracy and university. Various sectoral interests and institutions (the press, the judiciary, business, the Catholic Church) were complicit in the state terrorism, some actively others ...
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The military undertook a thorough militarization of the city following the 1976 coup, not just in waging the dirty war but by taking control of the government bureaucracy and university. Various sectoral interests and institutions (the press, the judiciary, business, the Catholic Church) were complicit in the state terrorism, some actively others ...
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Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence, 1997
The first line of Carl Schmitt's Political Theology is perhaps the most famous sentence—certainly one of the most infamous—in German political theory: “Sovereign is he who decides on the exception” [Souverän ist, wer über den Ausnahmezustand entscheidet]. And yet the full significance of this famous sentence is often underestimated.
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The first line of Carl Schmitt's Political Theology is perhaps the most famous sentence—certainly one of the most infamous—in German political theory: “Sovereign is he who decides on the exception” [Souverän ist, wer über den Ausnahmezustand entscheidet]. And yet the full significance of this famous sentence is often underestimated.
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Lost in transition? The persistence of dictatorship mayors
Journal of Development Economics, 2021Felipe Gonzalez, Mounu Prem
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Journal of Democracy
ABSTRACT: In recent years, significant academic attention has been devoted to the phenomenon of democratic backsliding, understood as a creeping assault on the rule of law and the fairness of elections, combined with efforts to capture the judicial system and state agencies to subjugate them to the executive power. At the same time, however, there has
Grzegorz Ekiert, Noah Dasanaike
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ABSTRACT: In recent years, significant academic attention has been devoted to the phenomenon of democratic backsliding, understood as a creeping assault on the rule of law and the fairness of elections, combined with efforts to capture the judicial system and state agencies to subjugate them to the executive power. At the same time, however, there has
Grzegorz Ekiert, Noah Dasanaike
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On the People’s Democratic Dictatorship
2019The Chinese Communist Revolution, led by Mao Zedong (1893–1976), routed the Kuomintang (Nationalist) forces of Chiang Kai-shek in 1949. In attempting to adapt Marxism-Leninism to Chinese conditions, Mao set even greater store by the peasantry than had Lenin.
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