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Dictatorship and Information - Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Communist Europe and China (Paperback)
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Dictatorship and Information - Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Communist Europe and China (Paperback)
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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. To explain how this all works, Dimitrov focuses on
communist regimes, which have the longest average lifespan among
single-party autocracies and have developed the most sophisticated
information-gathering institutions. Communist regimes face a
variety of threats, but the main one is the masses. Dimitrov
therefore examines the origins, evolution, and internal logic of
the information-collection ecosystem established by communist
states to monitor popular dissent. Drawing from a rich base of
evidence across multiple communist regimes and nearly 100
interviews, Dimitrov reshapes our understanding of how autocrats
learn-or fail to learn-about the societies they rule, and how they
maintain-or lose-power.
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