Search Results - Authoritarianism

The Struggling State / by Riggan, Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Everyday authoritarianism, teachers and the tenuous hyphen in nation-state -- Struggling for the nation: Contradictions of revolutionary nationalism -- "It seemed like a punishment": Coercive state effects and the maddening state -- Students or soldiers?…”
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Christianity and democratisation from pious subjects to critical participants / by Anderson, John

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Democracy and the Christian tradition -- The Catholic 'third wave': undermining authoritarianism -- The Catholic 'third wave': creating a new order -- The Orthodox hesitation: church, state and nation -- The Orthodox hesitation: the 'liberal-democracy' paradox -- The Protestant ethic revisited: conservative Christianity and the quality of American democracy -- The Protestant ethic revisited: the Pentecostal explosion as democratic hindrance or support? …”
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A predictable tragedy Robert Mugabe and the collapse of Zimbabwe / by Compagnon, Daniel

Table of Contents: “…Authoritarian control of the political arena -- Violence as the cornerstone of Mugabe's strategy of political survival -- Militant civil society and the emergence of a credible opposition -- The media battlefield : from skirmishes to full-fledged war -- The judiciary : from resistance to subjugation -- The land "reform" charade and the tragedy of famine -- The state bourgeoisie and the plunder of the economy -- The international community and the crisis in Zimbabwe -- Conclusion : crisis averted or merely postponed?.…”
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Feudal America Elements of the Middle Ages in Contemporary Society / by Shlapentokh, Vladimir

Table of Contents: “…The feudal model in social analysis : from medieval Europe to contemporary America -- Feudal, liberal, and authoritarian models as tools for analyzing the middle ages and contemporary American society -- Big money and corporations as promoters of feudal tendencies -- The feudal model and the organizational level of analysis -- Private coercion : a feudal aspect of contemporary American society -- Personal relations in American politics and business : a feudal phenomenon.…”
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Feudal America : Elements of the Middle Ages in Contemporary Society / by Shlapentokh, Vladimir

Table of Contents: “…The feudal model in social analysis : from medieval Europe to contemporary America -- Feudal, liberal, and authoritarian models as tools for analyzing the middle ages and contemporary American society -- Big money and corporations as promoters of feudal tendencies -- The feudal model and the organizational level of analysis -- Private coercion : a feudal aspect of contemporary American society -- Personal relations in American politics and business : a feudal phenomenon.…”
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Feudal America : Elements of the Middle Ages in Contemporary Society / by Shlapentokh, Vladimir

Table of Contents: “…The feudal model in social analysis : from medieval Europe to contemporary America -- Feudal, liberal, and authoritarian models as tools for analyzing the middle ages and contemporary American society -- Big money and corporations as promoters of feudal tendencies -- The feudal model and the organizational level of analysis -- Private coercion : a feudal aspect of contemporary American society -- Personal relations in American politics and business : a feudal phenomenon.…”
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Modernism, satire, and the novel by Greenberg, Jonathan Daniel, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Nightwood and the ends of satire; 8. Beckett's authoritarian personalities.…”
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Understanding Ukrainian politics power, politics, and institutional design / by D'Anieri, Paul J., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…-- Parliamentary rules and party development -- How power politics trumps institutional design -- Ukraine in comparative perspective : electoral authoritarianism in the former Soviet Union and beyond -- Beyond the Orange Revolution : an agenda for further reform.…”
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Conservatives and right radicals in interwar Europe /

Table of Contents: “…"Laboratory for World Destruction": The Habsburg Monarchy and Fascism / Steven Beller -- Volksdeutsch Revisionism: East Central Europe's Ethnic Germans and the Order of Paris / Gregor Thum -- Conservative and Radical Dynamics of Italian Fascism: An (East) European Perspective (1918-1938) / Marco Bresciani -- The Crisis of Legitimacy and the Rise of the Radical Right in Interwar Yugoslavia (1918-1941) / Mark Biondich -- Integral Nationalism in Absence of Nation-State: The Case of Ukraine / Oleksandr Zaitsev -- Catholic Authoritarians or Fascists as Such? The Polish Rightist Subculture Turns Fascist (1919-1939) / Grzegorz Krzywiec -- Faith, Family and Fatherland: Conservatism and Right Radicalism in Interwar Hungary / Béla Bodó -- The Romanian Right: Images of Crisis, the Press and the Rise of Fascism / Roland Clark -- Nationalism and Authoritarianism in Interwar Greece (1922-1940) / Spyridon G. …”
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Euro-Mediterranean relations after the Arab Spring : persistence in times of change /

Table of Contents: “…: renegotiating the authoritarian social contract in Egypt / Cilja Harders -- Blocked middle classes as an engine of change in the Arab world? …”
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Moroccan noir : police, crime, and politics in popular culture / by Smolin, Jonathan

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : state, mass media, and the new Moroccan authoritarianism -- Police on trial : the Tabit Affair, newspaper sensationalism, and the end of the Years of Lead -- "He butchered his wife because of witchcraft and adultery" : crime tabloids, moral panic and the remaking of the Moroccan cop -- Crime-page fiction : Moroccan true crime and the new independent press -- Prime-time cops : blurring police fact and fiction on Moroccan television -- The Moroccan "serial killer" and CSI : Casablanca -- From Morocco's 9/11 to community policing : state advertising and the new citizen -- Epilogue : "the police are at the service of the people."…”
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Religion and modern society citizenship, secularisation and the state / by Turner, Bryan S.

Table of Contents: “…Managing religions: liberal and authoritarian states; 10. Religious speech: on ineffable communication; 11. …”
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Routledge handbook of African politics /

Table of Contents: “…Villalón -- Women in politics / Amina Mama -- Civil war / Philip Roessler -- Oil politics / Ricardo Soares de Oliveira -- Power-sharing / Andreas Mehler -- Post-conflict peacebuilding / Devon Curtis -- Transitional justice after atrocity / Phil Clark -- Electoral authoritarianism and multi-party politics / Nicolas van de Walle -- The power of elections / Staffan I. …”

Agriculture in world history / by Tauger, Mark B.

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Debating political reform in China rule of law vs. democratization /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Suisheng Zhao -- Toward a consultative rule of law regime in China / Pan Wei -- Political liberalization without democratization : Pan Wei's proposal for political reform / Suisheng Zhao -- A government of laws : democracy, rule of law, and administrative law reform in China / Randall Peerenboom -- The rule of law as transition to democracy in China / Larry Diamond -- A comparative politics of democratization in China / Edward Friedman -- Pan Wei's consultative rule of law regime and reforming authoritarianism in China / Gunter Schubert -- Toward the rule of law : why China's path will be different from the West / Baohui Zhang -- The people's court in transition : the prospects for Chinese judicial reform / Qianfan Zhang -- State power and unbalanced legal development in China / Yongshun Cai, Songcai Yang -- Law and labor in post-Mao China / Yunqiu Zhang -- The Internet and emerging civil society in China / Guobin Yang -- The Internet and single-party rule in China / Tamara Renee Shie -- Toward a rule of law regime : political reform under China's fourth generation of leadership / Suisheng Zhao -- Reflections on "consultative rule of law regime" : a response to my critics / Pan Wei.…”
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Routledge handbook of NGOs and international relations /

Table of Contents: “…Pousadela -- Civil societies and NGOs in the Middle East and North Africa : the cases of Egypt and Tunisia / Sarah Ben Néfissa -- NGOs in Sub-Saharan Africa : potentials, constraints and diverging experiences / Hans Holmén -- NGOs in South Asia / Patrick Kilby -- Democracy and NGOs / Sarah Sunn Bush -- NGOs and authoritarianism / Andrew Heiss -- NGOs and security in conflict zones / Daniela Irrera -- NGOs and the challenge of global terrorism / Omi Hodwitz -- International ngo legitimacy : challenges and responses / Maryam Zarnegar Deloffre and Hans Peter Schmitz -- NGO accountability / Angela Crack.…”

Routledge handbook of NGOs and international relations /

Table of Contents: “…Pousadela -- Civil societies and NGOs in the Middle East and North Africa : the cases of Egypt and Tunisia / Sarah Ben Néfissa -- NGOs in Sub-Saharan Africa : potentials, constraints and diverging experiences / Hans Holmén -- NGOs in South Asia / Patrick Kilby -- Democracy and NGOs / Sarah Sunn Bush -- NGOs and authoritarianism / Andrew Heiss -- NGOs and security in conflict zones / Daniela Irrera -- NGOs and the challenge of global terrorism / Omi Hodwitz -- International ngo legitimacy : challenges and responses / Maryam Zarnegar Deloffre and Hans Peter Schmitz -- NGO accountability / Angela Crack.…”

The gender of reparations unsettling sexual hierarchies while redressing human rights violations /

Table of Contents: “…Gender and violence in focus : a background for gender justice in reparations / Margaret Urban Walker -- The gender of reparations in transitional societies / Ruth Rubio-Marín -- Reparation of sexual and reproductive violence : moving from codification to implementation / Colleen Duggan and Ruth Jacobson -- Reparations as a means for recognizing and addressing crimes and grave rights violations against girls and boys during situations of armed conflict and under authoritarian and dictatorial regimes / Dyan Mazurana and Khristopher Carlson -- Repairing family members : gross human rights violations and communities of harm / Ruth Rubio-Marín, Clara Sandoval, and Catalina Díaz -- Tort theory, microfinance, and gender equity convergent in pecuniary reparations / Anita Bernstein -- Gender, memorialization, and symbolic reparations / Brandon Hamber and Ingrid Palmary -- Gender and collective reparations in the aftermath of conflict and political repression / Ruth Rubio-Marín.…”
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One Zambia, many histories towards a history of post-colonial Zambia /

Table of Contents: “…Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula, UNIP and the roots of authoritarianism in nationalist Zambia / Giacomo Macola -- Rebellion or massacre? …”
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The Arab economies in a changing world by Noland, Marcus, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Affinity, democracy, and risk -- Authoritarianism, uncertainty, and prospects for change. …”
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