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Science in a dictatorship [PDF]

open access: possiblePhysics World, 2012
At the turn of the 20th century, German scientists led the world. Four decades later, their nation's reputation in the field was only a husk of what it had been. The cause of this transformation was the Nazi rise to power in 1933, which went on to precipitate one of the biggest intellectual migrations in history.
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The legacy of military dictatorship: Explaining violent crime in democracies

International Political Science Review, 2018
Violent crime rates have increased dramatically in many parts of the world in recent decades, with homicides now outpacing deaths due to interstate or civil wars.
Erica Frantz
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Power of Enforcement and Dictatorship

Theory and Decision, 2002
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The Boundaries of Dictatorship

2010
The title of this concluding chapter alludes to a collection of essays which I first read more than ten years ago when I was working on the cultural politics not of the fascist dictatorships, but of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). By focusing attention on what they termed Die Grenzen der Diktatur — the ‘boundaries’ or ‘limits of dictatorship ...
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Locke and the Dictatorship of the Bourgeoisie

Political Studies, 1965
This chapter examines John Locke's doctrine that “the great and chief end therefore, of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the Preservation of their Property.” There has been a good deal of criticism leveled at Locke's account of property.
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Truthful Facility Assignment with Resource Augmentation: An Exact Analysis of Serial Dictatorship

Workshop on Internet and Network Economics, 2016
We study the truthful facility assignment problem, where a set of agents with private most-preferred points on a metric space have to be assigned to facilities that lie on the metric space, under capacity constraints on the facilities.
I. Caragiannis   +4 more
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Dictatorship and Democracy

2013
The relation between democracy and dictatorship is analyzed using Arrow’s social choice model, where individual preferences are variable, as with an arbitrarily changing social situation. In its original formulation, the model implies the existence of a dictator, or, an individual whose preference always coincides with that of the society.
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The psychology of dictatorship

Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict, 2015
Moghaddam's new book, The psychology of dictatorship, calls attention to the questions of how dictatorships come into existence, how they may persist through social changes, what psychological fact...
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Are There Types of Dictatorship?

2019
The idea of different kinds of dictatorships can be traced back to Aristotle. In contemporary thinking, three classifications are common: tinpot vs. totalitarian, personal/military/single-party or civilian/military/monarchy, and short vs. long time horizon. This chapter argues that classification is useful if it can be theoretically grounded, the types
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