Dictatorship and Information. Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Communist Europe and China 1st Edition Martin K. Dimitrov

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0197672922
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0197672921
• Author(s): Martin K. Dimitrov

Fear pervades dictatorial regimes. Citizens fear leaders, the regime’s agents fear superiors, and leaders fear the masses. The ubiquity of fear in such regimes gives rise to the “dictator’s dilemma,” where autocrats do not know the level of opposition they face and cannot effectively neutralize domestic threats to their rule. The dilemma has led scholars to believe that autocracies are likely to be short-lived.

Yet, some autocracies have found ways to mitigate the dictator’s dilemma. As Martin K. Dimitrov shows in Dictatorship and Information, substantial variability exists in the survival of nondemocratic regimes, with single-party polities having the longest average duration. Offering a systematic theory of the institutional solutions to the dictator’s dilemma, Dimitrov argues that single-party autocracies have fostered channels that allow for the confidential vertical transmission of information, while also solving the problems associated with distorted information.

Table contents:

Part I. Theory and Method
1. Introduction: Solving the Dictator’s Dilemma
2. Studying Government Perceptions of Popular Discontent in Autocracies
Part II. Parallel Origins of Communist Information States
3. Monitoring and Counteracting Dissent in Bulgaria, 1944-1958
4. Monitoring and Counteracting Dissent in China, 1949-1958
Part III. Divergent Evolution of Communist Information States
5. Bread and Circuses: Consumption and Stability in Bulgaria, 1959-1988
6. Continuity and Change: Information Gathering in China, 1959-1988
Part IV. Similar Crises, Varied Contexts, Different Reforms
7. Information-Gathering Institutions in Bulgaria, 1989-1991
8. Information-Gathering Institutions in China, 1989-2019
Part V. Generalizability of the Theory
9. Scope Conditions: Authoritarian Information-Gathering Institutions
10. Conclusion: Information and Authoritarian Regime Resilience
Index

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