Free Download Humanism, Anti-Authoritarianism, and Literary Aesthetics: Pragmatist Stories of Progress
by Ulf Schulenberg
English | 2023 | ASIN: B0BQB3BLVD | 258 Pages | True ePUB | 0.44 MB

Free Download Professor Filip Reyntjens, "Aid and Authoritarianism in Africa: Development without Democracy"
English | 2016 | pages: 192 | ISBN: 1783606282 | EPUB | 1,0 mb
In 2013 almost half of Africa's top aid recipients were ruled by authoritarian regimes. While the West may claim to promote democracy and human rights, in practice major bilateral and international donors, such as USAID, DFID, the World Bank and the European Commission, have seen their aid policies become ever more entangled with the survival of their authoritarian protégés. Local citizens thus find themselves at the receiving end of a compromise between aid agencies and government elites, in which development policies are shaped in the interests of maintaining the status quo.

Ihsan Yilmaz, "Populism, Authoritarianism and Necropolitics: Instrumentalization of Martyrdom Narratives in AKP's Turkey"
English | ISBN: 9811982910 | 2023 | 226 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book examines how Turkey's ruling party, the Justice and Development Party (AKP), under the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan produces and employs necropolitical narratives in order to perpetuate its authoritarian rule.

Marie-Eve Desrosiers, "Trajectories of Authoritarianism in Rwanda: Elusive Control before the Genocide "
English | ISBN: 1009224786 | 2023 | 279 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Challenging assumptions regarding the strength and control of authoritarian governments in Rwanda in the decades before the 1994 genocide, Marie-Eve Desrosiers uses original archival data and interviews to highlight the complex relations between authorities, opponents, and society. Through careful, detailed analysis Desrosiers offers a nuanced assessment of the functions and evolution of authoritarianism over time, demonstrating how the governments of Rwanda's first two post-independence Republics (1962-1990) sought and often struggled to cement their rule. Whilst the deeper, lived realities of authoritarianism are generally neglected by multi-cases comparisons at the heart of comparative authoritarian studies, this illuminating survey highlights the essential, yet subtle authoritarian strategies, patterns, and forms of decay that are too often overlooked when addressing authoritarian contexts.

Civil Society Under Authoritarianism: The China Model By Jessica C. Teets
2014 | 252 Pages | ISBN: 1107038758 | PDF | 3 MB
Despite the dominant narrative of the repression of civil society in China, Civil Society under Authoritarianism: The China Model argues that interactions between local officials and civil society facilitate a learning process, whereby each actor learns about the intentions and work processes of the other. Over the past two decades, often facilitated by foreign donors and problems within the general social framework, these interactions generated a process in which officials learned the benefits and disadvantages of civil society. Civil society supports local officials' efforts to provide social services and improve public policies, yet it also engages in protest and other activities that challenge social stability and development. This duality motivates local officials in China to construct a 'social management' system - known as consultative authoritarianism - to encourage the beneficial aspects and discourage the dangerous ones.

Ezequiel Korin, "When Media Succumbs to Rising Authoritarianism "
English | ISBN: 0367616165 | 2021 | 154 pages | EPUB | 1159 KB
This book provides a transversal scholarly exploration of the multiple changes exhibited around Venezuelan media during the Chávez regime. Bringing together a body of original research by key scholars in the field, the book looks at the different processes entailed by Chavismo's relationship with the media, extending their discussion beyond the boundaries of the specific cases or examples and into the entire articulation of a nearly-perfect communicational hegemony.

Alan Waring, "The New Authoritarianism: Vol. 1: A Risk Analysis of the US Alt-Right Phenomenon"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 3838211537 | PDF | pages: 491 | 4.0 mb
This two-volume book considers from a risk perspective the current phenomenon of the new alt-right authoritarianism and whether it represents 'real' democracy or an unacceptable hegemony potentially resulting in elected dictatorships and abuses as well as dysfunctional government. Contributing authors represent an eclectic range of disciplines, including cognitive, organizational and political psychology, sociology, history, political science, international relations, linguistics and discourse analysis, and risk analysis. The alt-right threats and risk exposures, whether to democracy, human rights, law and order, social welfare, racial harmony, the economy, national security, the environment, and international relations, are identified and analyzed across a number of selected countries. While Vol. 1 focuses on the U.S., Vol. 2 (ISBN 978-3-8382-1263-0) illuminates the phenomenon in the UK, Austria, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Italy, Hungary, and Russia. Potential strategies to limit the alt-right threat are proposed.

Xian Huang, "Social Protection under Authoritarianism: Health Politics and Policy in China"
English | ISBN: 0190073640 | 2020 | 280 pages | PDF | 14 MB
Why would an authoritarian regime expand social welfare provision in the absence of democratization? Yet China, the world's largest and most powerful authoritarian state, has expanded its social health insurance system at an unprecedented rate, increasing enrollment from 20 percent of its population in 2000 to 95 percent in 2012. Significantly, people who were uninsured, such as peasants and the urban poor, are now covered, but their insurance is less comprehensive than that of China's elite. With the wellbeing of 1.4 billion people and the stability of the regime at stake, social health insurance is now a major political issue for Chinese leadership and ordinary citizens.

Megan Hauser, "Electoral Strategies under Authoritarianism: Evidence from the Former Soviet Union"
English | 2019 | pages: 233 | ISBN: 149855671X | PDF | 3,7 mb

Brazilian Authoritarianism: Past and Present by Lilia M. Schwarcz, translated by Eric M. B. Becker
English | September 13, 2022 | ISBN: 0691210918 | True EPUB/PDF | 328 pages | 7.8/22.2 MB
How Brazil's long history of racism and authoritarian politics has led to the country's present crises and epidemic of violence