Revolution and Dictatorship (eBook)

The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism

Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way (Autoren)

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2022
656 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22357-5 (ISBN)

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Why the world's most resilient dictatorships are products of violent revolutionRevolution and Dictatorship explores why dictatorships born of social revolution-such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam-are extraordinarily durable, even in the face of economic crisis, large-scale policy failure, mass discontent, and intense external pressure. Few other modern autocracies have survived in the face of such extreme challenges. Drawing on comparative historical analysis, Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way argue that radical efforts to transform the social and geopolitical order trigger intense counterrevolutionary conflict, which initially threatens regime survival, but ultimately fosters the unity and state-building that supports authoritarianism.Although most revolutionary governments begin weak, they challenge powerful domestic and foreign actors, often bringing about civil or external wars. These counterrevolutionary wars pose a threat that can destroy new regimes, as in the cases of Afghanistan and Cambodia. Among regimes that survive, however, prolonged conflicts give rise to a cohesive ruling elite and a powerful and loyal coercive apparatus. This leads to the downfall of rival organizations and alternative centers of power, such as armies, churches, monarchies, and landowners, and helps to inoculate revolutionary regimes against elite defection, military coups, and mass protest-three principal sources of authoritarian breakdown.Looking at a range of revolutionary and nonrevolutionary regimes from across the globe, Revolution and Dictatorship shows why governments that emerge from violent conflict endure.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.9.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 10 b/w illus. 14 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: activism • Aileron • Aircraft • Algeria • Algerian People's National Armed Forces • Ancien Régime • Angle of attack • Anti-Imperialism • authoritarianism • autocracy • Basij • Bay of Pigs invasion • Benito Mussolini • Bolivia • bolsheviks • Bombard the Headquarters • border • Cambodia • Chiang Kai-shek • Chinese civil war • Client state • Cold War • Cold War (1985–91) • communism • Communist Party of China • Communist Party of the Soviet Union • communist state • Contras • Counter-Insurgency • counter-revolutionary • coup d'état • Cristero War • Cuban Revolution • Cultural revolution • Decolonization • defection • Democracy Promotion • Demonstration (protest) • Dictatorship • Dutch roll • Early Period • Encirclement • Enver Hoxha • Eritrea • Eritrean People's Liberation Front • Explanation • Ferdinand Marcos • Fidel Castro • Foreign Policy Initiative • Francoist Spain • Frelimo • French Revolution • Gamal Abdel Nasser • Geopolitics • Great Leap Forward • Great Purge • Gualberto Villarroel • guerrilla warfare • Guinea-Bissau • Hans Kelsen • Ho Chi Minh • hostility • Humberto Ortega • Ideology • Illustration • imperialism • Incapacitation (penology) • Independent sources • Institution • Institutional Revolutionary Party • Insurgency • Intelligence agency • internal conflict • International Law • invasion of grenada • Iranian Revolution • Islamism • John F. Kennedy • joseph stalin • Josip Broz Tito • Kronstadt rebellion • Kuomintang • Left communism • Legislature • Leninism • Lin Biao • Literature • Lusophone • Marxism • Mehdi Bazargan • Mengistu Haile Mariam • messianism • Mexican Revolution • Middle East • Miguel I of Portugal • Military threat • modern history • Mohammad Khatami • Mohammed Omar • Mozambique • Nationalization • New Army • New Economic Policy • Nicaragua • Nicaraguan Revolution • Nikita Khrushchev • October Revolution • Operation Barbarossa • Pahlavi Dynasty • Pakistan Army • Paris Peace Conference, 1919 • Party leader • peasant • Peng Dehuai • Politician • Politics • Pol Pot • popular sovereignty • Power structure • Protest • provisional government • Public International Law • Radicalism (historical) • Radicalization • Regime • regime change • Religious Organization • Revolution • revolutionary movement • Revolutionary Nationalist Movement • revolutionary struggle • Ruhollah Khomeini • Rural Area • Russian Empire • Russian Revolution • Rwanda • Saddam Hussein • Samora Machel • Sandinista National Liberation Front • security forces • shortage • Siege mentality • social equality • Social Order • social revolution • Society • Sovereignty • Soviet Union • Stalinism • States and Social Revolutions • state socialism • Succession of states • Taliban • The Social Contract • The Sovereign State • Tlatelolco massacre • Totalitarianism • Triumvirate • Viet Minh • war • warfare • welfare • white movement • White Revolution • Window of Opportunity • World War I • World War II • Yugoslavia • Zhang Xueliang
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22357-2 / 0691223572
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22357-5 / 9780691223575