Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship

Salt Journals is a compelling collection of essays by Tunisian women, sharing their personal experiences with dictatorship and oppression.

Over the past century, democracy spread around the world in turbulent bursts of change, sweeping across national borders in dramatic cascades of revolution and reform.

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This book systematically explains why some countries are democracies while others are not.

Ptolemy, considered a proto-Humanist by some, combined the principles of Northern Italian republicanism with Aristotelian theory in his De Regimine Principum, a book that influenced much of the political thought of the later Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the early modern period.

Looks at how Nigeria''s political parties compete for power in a context of transition, terrorism, and religious and ethnic tension.

Was passiert wirklich in China?

An accessible introduction to the processes which shape politics and economics in contemporary Turkey.

This book presents a uniquely dynamic and fluid model of political evolution in the world''s largest and most powerful authoritarian regime.

For Christians living as a persecuted minority in the Middle East, the question of whether their allegiance should lie with their faith or with the national communities they live in is a difficult one.

Historians and political theorists consider the subject of nineteenth- and twentieth-century dictatorships.

Forty years after his death, Mao remains a totemic, if divisive, figure in contemporary China.

Presents a new theory of the rise, evolution, decline, and collapse of political orders, exploring the impact of late-modernity upon the survival of democratic and authoritarian regimes.

Presents a new theory for why democracies and dictatorships emerge and then survive or collapse via analyses of political regimes in Latin America since 1900.

For the last century, the Western world has regarded Turkey as a pivotal case of the 'clash of civilisations' between Islam and the West.

A comprehensive look at the role of history, economics, security, threat perception, and domestic politics in the South Korea-United States alliance.

A groundbreaking history of Europe's "e;new lefts,"e; from the antifascist 1920s to the anti-establishment 1960sIn the 1960s, the radical youth of Western Europe's New Left rebelled against the democratic welfare state and their parents' antiquated politics of reform.

The concept of political plasticity is a powerful new tool for understanding change and continuity in behavior.

Life in Stalin's Soviet Union is a collaborative work in which some of the leading scholars in the field shed light on various aspects of daily life for Soviet citizens.

A comprehensive but accessible examination of how elite Chinese politics work covering the period from Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping.

With populist, nationalist and repressive governments on the rise around the world, questioning the impact of politics on the nature and role of law and the state is a pressing concern.

Populist Authoritarianism focuses on the Chinese Communist Party, which governs the world's largest population in a single-party authoritarian state.

Dictators and Dictatorships is a qualitative enquiry into the politics of authoritarian regimes.

The gripping story of an explosive turning point in the history of modern IndiaOn the night of June 25, 1975, Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency in India, suspending constitutional rights and rounding up her political opponents in midnight raids across the country.

Explores the effect of justice measures on ''regime consolidation'' in a post-transition context.

From its creation in 1950, to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the German Democratic Republic's Ministry for State Security closely monitored its nation's citizens.

This book provides the first political theory of post-Communist Europe, discussing liberty, rights, transitional justice, property, privatization, and rule of law.

The fourth edition of Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini: Totalitarianism in the Twentieth Century presents an innovative comparison of the origins, development, and demise of the three forms of totalitarianism that emerged in twentieth-century Europe.

Spanish Fascist Writing presents the first collection of Spanish fascist texts in English translation and offers an intellectual and political history of fascist writing in Spain, a history that resituates the country within the larger unfolding of right-wing extremism worldwide from the early twentieth century to the present.

After the German and Soviet attack on Poland in 1939, vast swathes of Polish territory, including Warsaw and Krak w, fell under Nazi occupation in an administration which became known as the 'General Government'.

Salvador Puig Antich, a Catalan anarchist and member of the anticapitalist group MIL, was executed by garrote vil in 1974, one of the last victims of the Franco regime.

Authoritarian states work hard to manage their images abroad.

A comprehensive assessment of the nature and evolving character of authoritarian regimes, their changing character and the main theoretical explanations of their incidence, character and performance.

Stalinism, that particularly brutal phase of the Communist experience, came to an end in most of Europe with the death of Stalin in 1953.

For Christians living as a persecuted minority in the Middle East, the question of whether their allegiance should lie with their faith or with the national communities they live in is a difficult one.

Challenges existing models and introduces an alternative, supply-side, and state-centered theory of coercive distribution.

Decoding the discourse: Rhetorical foundations of authoritarian power.

Combining the intimacy of memoir and the precision of history, the story of psychologist Nicolae Margineanu's imprisonment and survival conveys in striking detail the corrosive impact of Communist rule in Romania.

The Nazis never won a majority in free elections, but soon after Hitler took power most people turned away from democracy and backed the Nazi regime.

Turkey has witnessed remarkable sociocultural change under the regime of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP), particularly regarding its religious communities.

From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of China After Mao, a sweeping and timely study of twentieth-century dictators and the development of the modern cult of personality.

Launches a new research agenda on one of the most common but overlooked features of the democratization experience worldwide: authoritarian successor parties.