Dictators and autocrats : securing power across global politics / / Klaus Larres |
Autore | Larres Klaus |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxon, UK ; ; New York, NY : , : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, , [2021] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 321.9 |
Soggetto topico |
Dictators - History
Authoritarianism - History |
ISBN |
1-00-310050-3
1-003-10050-3 1-000-46755-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction: dictators and autocrats: a global phenomenon -- Abstracts -- Part I The notorious three -- 1 Joseph Stalin: autocrat par excellence (1878-1953) -- 2 Adolf Hitler: from democracy to dictatorship (1889-1945) -- 3 Mao Zedong: communist Party dictatorship (1893-1976) -- Part II Pathbreaking autocrats of the twentieth century -- 4 Fidel Castro: from grassroots dictatorship to Communist autocracy (1926-2016) -- 5 Augusto Pinochet: the emergence of one-man rule in Chile (1915-2006) -- 6 Robert Mugabe: ruthless authoritarian who preferred democratic clothing (1924-2019) -- 7 Joseph Kabila: the "Raïs" of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (born 1971) -- 8 Hugo Chavez: was he an autocrat? (1954-2013) -- 9 Lee Kuan Yew: autocracy, elections, and capitalism (1923-2015) -- Part III Twenty-first-century autocrats: the major powers -- 10 Vladimir Putin: Russia's neo-patrimonial façade democracy (born 1952) -- 11 Xi Jinping: the rise of an authoritarian leader (born 1953) -- 12 Narendra Modi: elected authoritarian (born 1950) -- 13 Donald J. Trump: the authoritarian style in American politics (born 1946) -- Part IV Twenty-first-century autocrats: other influential autocrats -- 14 Ali Hosseini Khamenei: routinizing revolution in Iran (born 1939) -- 15 The Assad Dynasty: quo vadis Damascus? (Hafiz: 1930-2000 -- Bashar: born 1965) -- 16 Kim Jong Un: rise to power and leadership style (born 1984) -- 17 Abdel Fattah el-Sisi: the one and only Egyptian dictator (born 1954) -- 18 Prayuth Chan-o-Cha: from the barracks to the ballot box (born 1954) -- 19 Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud (a.k.a. "MBS"): king in all but name (born 1985) -- 20 Viktor Orbán and János Kádár: a post-Communist and a Communist autocrat in Hungary. A comparative analysis (Kádár: 1912-1989.
Orbán: born 1963) -- 21 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: from "illiberal democracy" to electoral authoritarianism (born 1953) -- 22 Rodrigo Duterte: macho populism and authoritarian practice (born 1945) -- 23 Jair Bolsonaro: beyond the pale, above the fray (born 1955) -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910774749303321 |
Larres Klaus | ||
Oxon, UK ; ; New York, NY : , : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, , [2021] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Dictatorship in history and theory : Bonapartism, Caesarism, and totalitarianism / / edited by Peter Baehr, Melvin Richter [[electronic resource]] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xi, 308 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 321.9 |
Collana | Publications of the German Historical Institute |
Soggetto topico |
Dictatorship - History
Dictatorship - Europe - History Authoritarianism - History Authoritarianism - Europe - History |
ISBN |
1-139-88309-7
1-139-05242-X 1-280-45770-8 0-511-18598-7 0-511-18515-4 0-511-18784-X 0-511-31383-7 0-511-18691-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | ; Introduction / Peter Baehr and Melvin Richter -- ; Part I. Bonapartism to its contemporaries -- From Consulate to Empire : impetus and resistance / Isser Woloch -- The Bonapartes and Germany / T.C.W. Blanning -- Prussian conservatives and the problem of Bonapartism / David E. Barclay -- Tocqueville and French nineteenth-century conceptualizations of the two Bonapartes and their empires / Melvin Richter -- Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte : democracy, dictatorship, and the politics of class struggle / Terrell Carver -- Bonapartism as the progenitor of democracy : the paradoxical case of the French Second Empire / Sudhir Hazareesingh -- ; Part II. Bonapartism, Caesarism, totalitarianism : twentieth-century experiences and reflections -- Max Weber and the avatars of Caesarism / Peter Baehr -- The concept of Caesarism in Gramsci / Benedetto Fontana -- From constitutional technique to Caesarist ploy : Carl Schmitt on dictatorship, liberalism, and emergency powers / John P. McCormick -- Bonapartist and Gaullist heroic leadership : comparing crisis appeals to an impersonated people / Jack Hayward -- The leader and the masses : Hannah Arendt on totalitarianism and dictatorship / Margaret Canovan -- ; Part III. Ancient resonances -- Dictatorship in Rome / Claude Nicolet -- From the historical Caesar to the spectre of Caesarism : the Imperial Administrator as internal threat / Arthur M. Eckstein. |
Altri titoli varianti | Dictatorship in History & Theory |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457175103321 |
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Dictatorship in history and theory : Bonapartism, Caesarism, and totalitarianism / / edited by Peter Baehr, Melvin Richter [[electronic resource]] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xi, 308 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 321.9 |
Collana | Publications of the German Historical Institute |
Soggetto topico |
Dictatorship - History
Dictatorship - Europe - History Authoritarianism - History Authoritarianism - Europe - History |
ISBN |
1-139-88309-7
1-139-05242-X 1-280-45770-8 0-511-18598-7 0-511-18515-4 0-511-18784-X 0-511-31383-7 0-511-18691-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | ; Introduction / Peter Baehr and Melvin Richter -- ; Part I. Bonapartism to its contemporaries -- From Consulate to Empire : impetus and resistance / Isser Woloch -- The Bonapartes and Germany / T.C.W. Blanning -- Prussian conservatives and the problem of Bonapartism / David E. Barclay -- Tocqueville and French nineteenth-century conceptualizations of the two Bonapartes and their empires / Melvin Richter -- Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte : democracy, dictatorship, and the politics of class struggle / Terrell Carver -- Bonapartism as the progenitor of democracy : the paradoxical case of the French Second Empire / Sudhir Hazareesingh -- ; Part II. Bonapartism, Caesarism, totalitarianism : twentieth-century experiences and reflections -- Max Weber and the avatars of Caesarism / Peter Baehr -- The concept of Caesarism in Gramsci / Benedetto Fontana -- From constitutional technique to Caesarist ploy : Carl Schmitt on dictatorship, liberalism, and emergency powers / John P. McCormick -- Bonapartist and Gaullist heroic leadership : comparing crisis appeals to an impersonated people / Jack Hayward -- The leader and the masses : Hannah Arendt on totalitarianism and dictatorship / Margaret Canovan -- ; Part III. Ancient resonances -- Dictatorship in Rome / Claude Nicolet -- From the historical Caesar to the spectre of Caesarism : the Imperial Administrator as internal threat / Arthur M. Eckstein. |
Altri titoli varianti | Dictatorship in History & Theory |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784444303321 |
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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