Political Structures: Totalitarianism & Dictatorship

Brazil is the world's sixth largest economy, has played a key role as one of the 'pink wave' administrations in Latin America, and was also respons...

Why the worlds most resilient dictatorships are products of violent revolutionRevolution and Dictatorship explores why dictatorships born of social...

Across the Euro-Atlantic world, political leaders have been mobilizing their bases with nativism, racism, xenophobia, and paeans to traditional val...

In recent years, scholars have noted the rise of a particular type of authoritarianism worldwide, in which rulers manipulate institutions designed ...

This book argues that the transition by Western society to late modernity has weakened the social order, creating a quasi-anomic state that favors ...

Populism is on the rise in Europe and the Americas. Scholars increasingly understand populist forces in terms of their ideas or discourse, one that...

It remains a disconcerting fact that much of the world's history has been determined by autocrats and dictatorsby rulers who gained and retained po...

In its comprehensive analysis of a wide range of primary and secondary sources in both Chinese and Western languages, this authoritative work stand...

A New Yorker Best Book of the YearA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearAn Atlantic Best Book of the YearA Financial Times Best Politics Book of t...

It is 2011, and all universities in North Korea have been shut down for an entire year, except for the all-male Pyongyang University of Science and...

Democracies and Authoritarian Regimes provides a broad, accessible overview of the key institutions and political dynamics in democracies and dicta...

Over the past decade, illiberal powers have become emboldened and gained influence within the global arena. Leading authoritarian countries-includi...

Authoritarian states work hard to manage their images abroad. They invest in foreign-facing media, hire public relations firms, tout their popular ...

2023 Hagley Prize for Best Book in Business HistoryBuying into Change examines how the development of a mass consumer society under the dictatorshi...

Ruth Ben-Ghiat is the expert on the strongman playbook employed by authoritarian demagogues from Mussolini to Putinenabling her to predict with unc...

The coup d'etat of July 1936 split Spain in two, shaping a chessboard of terror, misery and death that would put an end to the Republic and give su...

The coup d'etat of July 1936 split Spain in two, shaping a chessboard of terror, misery and death that would put an end to the Republic and give su...

What does it mean when a radical understanding of National Socialism is inextricably embedded in the work of the twentieth centurys most important ...