The Two Logics of Autocratic Rule

Name: The Two Logics of Autocratic Rule
SKU: 9781009199414
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Author: Johannes Gerschewski
ISBN: 9781009199414

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AvJohannes Gerschewski

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In The Two Logics of Autocratic Rule, Gerschewski argues that all autocracies must fulfil three conditions to survive: the co-optation of key elites into their inner sanctum, the repression of potential dissent, and popular legitimation. Yet, how these conditions complement each other depends on alternative logics: over-politicization and de-politicization. While the former aims at mobilizing people via inflating a friend-foe distinction, the latter renders the people passive and apathetic, relying instead on performance-driven forms of legitimation. Gerschewski supports this two-logics theory with the empirical analysis of forty-five autocratic regime episodes in East Asia since the end of World War II. In simultaneously synthesizing and extending existing research on non-democracies, this book proposes an innovative way to understand autocratic rule that goes beyond the classic distinction between totalitarian and authoritarian regimes. It will be of interest to scholars and students of comparative politics, political theory, and East Asian politics.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-04-13
Mått158 x 235 x 23 mm
Vikt590 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor314
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009199414

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Johannes Gerschewski is a Research Fellow at the Global Governance Unit, WZB Berlin Social Science Center. He works on democratic and autocratic theory, concept building, and questions of political ideologies. His research has appeared in the American Political Science Review, Perspectives on Politics, and Comparative Political Studies. He was awarded the 2013 Frank Cass Award and received in 2016 the Gero-Erdmann Prize for Comparative Area Studies.

'This is a landmark in the study of authoritarian stability. Gerschewski moves beyond the recent trend in understanding authoritarian regime durability as a product of material and coercive factors to reintegrate ideological and normative factors that legitimize dictatorship into our understanding. He provides a fuller picture of why authoritarianism proved to be more durable than many had anticipated.' Michael Bernhard, University of Florida