Barbara Geddes is a professor of Political Science at University of California, Los Angeles. Her 1999 article in the Annual Review of Political Science is credited with changing the way social scientists think about dictatorships. She developed the theoretical reasons for using characteristics of the group that established the dictatorship as the basis for explaining dictatorial decisions and began the first systematic collection of data about these groups and the dictatorships they initiated. She has written extensively on regime transition and dictatorship, as well as research design in comparative politics.
This accessible volume shines a light on how autocracy really works by providing basic facts about how post-World War II dictatorships achieve, retain, and lose power. The authors present an evidence-based portrait of key features of the authoritarian landscape with newly collected data about 200 dictatorial regimes. They examine the central political processes that shape the policy choices of dictatorships and how they compel reaction from policy makers in the rest of the world. Importantly, this book explains how some dictators concentrate great power in their own hands at the expense of other members of the dictatorial elite. Dictators who can monopolize decision making in their countries cause much of the erratic, warlike behavior that disturbs the rest of the world. By providing a picture of the central processes common to dictatorships, this book puts the experience of specific countries in perspective, leading to an informed understanding of events and the likely outcome of foreign responses to autocracies.
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On “how governments work”, there’s a concentration of scholarship on functioning of democracies, and thus the operation of dictatorships is relatively less known. This may be construed as the purpose of authors to start this research. Although the book i...
評分On “how governments work”, there’s a concentration of scholarship on functioning of democracies, and thus the operation of dictatorships is relatively less known. This may be construed as the purpose of authors to start this research. Although the book i...
評分On “how governments work”, there’s a concentration of scholarship on functioning of democracies, and thus the operation of dictatorships is relatively less known. This may be construed as the purpose of authors to start this research. Although the book i...
評分On “how governments work”, there’s a concentration of scholarship on functioning of democracies, and thus the operation of dictatorships is relatively less known. This may be construed as the purpose of authors to start this research. Although the book i...
評分On “how governments work”, there’s a concentration of scholarship on functioning of democracies, and thus the operation of dictatorships is relatively less known. This may be construed as the purpose of authors to start this research. Although the book i...
圖書標籤: 比較政治 威權主義 政治學 政治哲學 威權政體 politics 英文原版 新書記
先說長處:用seizure group解決內生性問題是創見,隻不過seizure group本身和其他結構性因素之間的關係探討地不充分;數據很充實,數據庫應該會很有益;基本每個論點都做瞭定量分析。 再說缺陷:理論上幾乎毫無創見,Svolik提過的東西復讀一遍沒什麼意思;personalism index的衡量捕捉不到個人統治的要害,其中衡量chairman Mao的個人權力的麯綫簡直可笑;證僞軍隊不是上層階級利益捍衛者的定量證據太薄弱。 個人感覺威權主義研究還是需要在威權主義體製下有生活經驗和生活體悟。要不然就隻會齣這種讓人覺著數據處理很精緻,除此之外似乎帶不來什麼洞見的著作。
評分竟然能在齣版半年後還成為豆瓣上第一個標這本書的...雖然毫不懷疑它在將來會成為Authoritarian Politics課程大綱上的常客,但因為寫作戰綫拉得太長,一些部分已經沒有那麼驚喜瞭(實際上很多論點已經被Gandhi和Svolik提及)。個人感覺主要貢獻在兩點:一是用Seizure Group概念解決內生性問題;二是提齣Personalism Index(但效度存疑)。
評分先說長處:用seizure group解決內生性問題是創見,隻不過seizure group本身和其他結構性因素之間的關係探討地不充分;數據很充實,數據庫應該會很有益;基本每個論點都做瞭定量分析。 再說缺陷:理論上幾乎毫無創見,Svolik提過的東西復讀一遍沒什麼意思;personalism index的衡量捕捉不到個人統治的要害,其中衡量chairman Mao的個人權力的麯綫簡直可笑;證僞軍隊不是上層階級利益捍衛者的定量證據太薄弱。 個人感覺威權主義研究還是需要在威權主義體製下有生活經驗和生活體悟。要不然就隻會齣這種讓人覺著數據處理很精緻,除此之外似乎帶不來什麼洞見的著作。
評分先說長處:用seizure group解決內生性問題是創見,隻不過seizure group本身和其他結構性因素之間的關係探討地不充分;數據很充實,數據庫應該會很有益;基本每個論點都做瞭定量分析。 再說缺陷:理論上幾乎毫無創見,Svolik提過的東西復讀一遍沒什麼意思;personalism index的衡量捕捉不到個人統治的要害,其中衡量chairman Mao的個人權力的麯綫簡直可笑;證僞軍隊不是上層階級利益捍衛者的定量證據太薄弱。 個人感覺威權主義研究還是需要在威權主義體製下有生活經驗和生活體悟。要不然就隻會齣這種讓人覺著數據處理很精緻,除此之外似乎帶不來什麼洞見的著作。
評分先說長處:用seizure group解決內生性問題是創見,隻不過seizure group本身和其他結構性因素之間的關係探討地不充分;數據很充實,數據庫應該會很有益;基本每個論點都做瞭定量分析。 再說缺陷:理論上幾乎毫無創見,Svolik提過的東西復讀一遍沒什麼意思;personalism index的衡量捕捉不到個人統治的要害,其中衡量chairman Mao的個人權力的麯綫簡直可笑;證僞軍隊不是上層階級利益捍衛者的定量證據太薄弱。 個人感覺威權主義研究還是需要在威權主義體製下有生活經驗和生活體悟。要不然就隻會齣這種讓人覺著數據處理很精緻,除此之外似乎帶不來什麼洞見的著作。
How Dictatorships Work 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載