Spin Dictators (eBook)

The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century

Sergei Guriev, Daniel Treisman (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
368 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-24761-8 (ISBN)

Infos

A New Yorker Best Book of the YearA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearAn Atlantic Best Book of the YearA Financial Times Best Politics Book of the YearHow a new breed of dictators holds power by manipulating information and faking democracyHitler, Stalin, and Mao ruled through violence, fear, and ideology. But in recent decades a new breed of media-savvy strongmen has been redesigning authoritarian rule for a more sophisticated, globally connected world. In place of overt, mass repression, rulers such as Vladimir Putin, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Viktor Orban control their citizens by distorting information and simulating democratic procedures. Like spin doctors in democracies, they spin the news to engineer support. Uncovering this new brand of authoritarianism, Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman explain the rise of such ';spin dictators,' describing how they emerge and operate, the new threats they pose, and how democracies should respond.Spin Dictators traces how leaders such as Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew and Peru's Alberto Fujimori pioneered less violent, more covert, and more effective methods of monopolizing power. They cultivated an image of competence, concealed censorship, and used democratic institutions to undermine democracy, all while increasing international engagement for financial and reputational benefits. The book reveals why most of today's authoritarians are spin dictatorsand how they differ from the remaining ';fear dictators' such as Kim Jong-un and Bashar al-Assad, as well as from masters of high-tech repression like Xi Jinping.Offering incisive portraits of today's authoritarian leaders, Spin Dictators explains some of the great political puzzles of our timefrom how dictators can survive in an age of growing modernity to the disturbing convergence and mutual sympathy between dictators and populists like Donald Trump.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.4.2023
• Zusatzinfo: 4 b/w illus. 2 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: activism • Alberto Fujimori • Amnesty International • Animal Farm • António de Oliveira Salazar • Appellate body • aristocracy • authoritarianism • autocracy • Ayatollah • ballot • Beijing • Bersih • Bill Clinton • Burberry • Censorship • communism • communist state • Corruption • Currency • debt • Dictatorship • disinformation • Dissident • Economic Development • Economy of the Soviet Union • El Comercio (Peru) • Electronic Media • Enlace • Entrepreneurship • Erich Honecker • Estado Novo (Portugal) • External Debt • Flagellation • flattery • Foreign Direct Investment • Fraud • Freelancer • French Revolution • Gastarbeiter • Google Translate • Ideology • Immigration • income • incumbent • Industrial society • Infrastructure • Institution • International Law • Isaias Afwerki • Jeune Afrique • judicial deference • Kazakhstan • language interpretation • Lee Kuan Yew • Legitimation • Leninism • liberal democracy • Liberalism • Liberia • Life and Fate • Loyalty • Lyndon B. Johnson • Marketing • Mexico City • Military • Moscow Metro • Multilateralism • National Front Party (Libya) • newspaper • Norbert Elias • Nursultan Nazarbayev • Opinion Poll • Persuasion (novel) • Politics • Presidente (beer) • printing • print media • Red Army Faction • Respondent • Robert Mundell • Rule Of Thumb • Ruler • security forces • Shame • Silvio Berlusconi • Soviet Union • state of emergency • supermajority • Supporter • terrorism • The Law Firm • United States Dollar • Vladimir Putin • Voting • war • Waterboarding • Wealth • Workforce • work of art
• ISBN-10: 0-691-24761-7 / 0691247617
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-24761-8 / 9780691247618