What are the conditions for good governance in Africa, and why do many democracies still struggle with persistent poverty? Drawing on a historical study of Nigeria since independence, this book argues that the structure of the policy-making process explains variations in governm…
''Although much of the world still lives today, as always, under dictatorship, the behaviour of these regimes and of their leaders often appears irrational and mysterious. In The Political Economy of Dictatorship, Ronald Wintrobe uses rational choice theory to model dictatorship…
Although much of the world still lives today, as always, under dictatorship, the behaviour of these regimes and of their leaders often appears irrational and mysterious. In The Political Economy of Dictatorship, Ronald Wintrobe uses rational choice theory to model dictatorships:…
This volume offers a major new theory of authoritarian politics. It studies regime struggles between government and opposition under electoral authoritarianism and argues that autocracies suffer from institutional uncertainties.
This volume offers a major new theory of authoritarian politics. It studies regime struggles between government and opposition under electoral authoritarianism and argues that autocracies suffer from institutional uncertainties.
Historical and theoretical foundations -- Dictatorship and consolidation of bourgeois power -- Dictatorship and reproduction of bourgeois power -- Dictatorship and the supersession of the bourgeois state -- Contribution to the theory of dictatorship -- Theses on the concept of d…
Seit der Wiedervereinigung ringen im öffentlichen Diskurs unterschiedliche Geschichten und Deutungen der DDR-Vergangenheit um Anerkennung. Dagegen verbindet sich mit der geschichtspolitischen Forderung nach Aufarbeitung der Wunsch nach einem klaren DDR-Bild, das einer Verdrängun…
"A harrowing tour of 'dictator literature' in the twentieth-century, featuring the soul-killing prose and poetry of Hitler, Mao, and many more, which shows how books have sometimes shaped the world for the worse."--Jacket
