Dictatorship - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dictatorship write by Carl Schmitt. This book was released on 2015-01-28. Dictatorship available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Now available in English for the first time, Dictatorship is Carl Schmitt’s most scholarly book and arguably a paradigm for his entire work. Written shortly after the Russian Revolution and the First World War, Schmitt analyses the problem of the state of emergency and the power of the Reichspräsident in declaring it. Dictatorship, Schmitt argues, is a necessary legal institution in constitutional law and has been wrongly portrayed as just the arbitrary rule of a so-called dictator. Dictatorship is an essential book for understanding the work of Carl Schmitt and a major contribution to the modern theory of a democratic, constitutional state. And despite being written in the early part of the twentieth century, it speaks with remarkable prescience to our contemporary political concerns.
From Dictatorship to Democracy
From Dictatorship to Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Dictatorship to Democracy write by Gene Sharp. This book was released on 2008. From Dictatorship to Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A serious introduction to the use of nonviolent action to topple dictatorships. Based on the author's study, over a period of forty years, on non-violent methods of demonstration, it was originally published in 1993 in Thailand for distribution among Burmese dissidents.
Making Sense of Dictatorship
Making Sense of Dictatorship - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Making Sense of Dictatorship write by Celia Donert. This book was released on 2022-03-22. Making Sense of Dictatorship available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How did political power function in the communist regimes of Central and Eastern Europe after 1945? Making Sense of Dictatorship addresses this question with a particular focus on the acquiescent behavior of the majority of the population until, at the end of the 1980s, their rejection of state socialism and its authoritarian world. The authors refer to the concept of Sinnwelt, the way in which groups and individuals made sense of the world around them. The essays focus on the dynamics of everyday life and the extent to which the relationship between citizens and the state was collaborative or antagonistic. Each chapter addresses a different aspect of life in this period, including modernization, consumption and leisure, and the everyday experiences of “ordinary people,” single mothers, or those adopting alternative lifestyles. Empirically rich and conceptually original, the essays in this volume suggest new ways to understand how people make sense of everyday life under dictatorial regimes.
Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe
Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe write by Sheri Berman. This book was released on 2019-01-04. Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At the end of the twentieth century, many believed the story of European political development had come to an end. Modern democracy began in Europe, but for hundreds of years it competed with various forms of dictatorship. Now, though, the entire continent was in the democratic camp for the first time in history. But within a decade, this story had already begun to unravel. Some of the continent's newer democracies slid back towards dictatorship, while citizens in many of its older democracies began questioning democracy's functioning and even its legitimacy. And of course it is not merely in Europe where democracy is under siege. Across the globe the immense optimism accompanying the post-Cold War democratic wave has been replaced by pessimism. Many new democracies in Latin America, Africa, and Asia began "backsliding," while the Arab Spring quickly turned into the Arab winter. The victory of Donald Trump led many to wonder if it represented a threat to the future of liberal democracy in the United States. Indeed, it is increasingly common today for leaders, intellectuals, commentators and others to claim that rather than democracy, some form dictatorship or illiberal democracy is the wave of the future. In Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe, Sheri Berman traces the long history of democracy in its cradle, Europe. She explains that in fact, just about every democratic wave in Europe initially failed, either collapsing in upon itself or succumbing to the forces of reaction. Yet even when democratic waves failed, there were always some achievements that lasted. Even the most virulently reactionary regimes could not suppress every element of democratic progress. Panoramic in scope, Berman takes readers through two centuries of turmoil: revolution, fascism, civil war, and - -finally -- the emergence of liberal democratic Europe in the postwar era. A magisterial retelling of modern European political history, Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe not explains how democracy actually develops, but how we should interpret the current wave of illiberalism sweeping Europe and the rest of the world.
Constraining Dictatorship
Constraining Dictatorship - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Constraining Dictatorship write by Anne Meng. This book was released on 2020-08-20. Constraining Dictatorship available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examining constitutional rules and power-sharing in Africa reveals how some dictatorships become institutionalized, rule-based systems.
