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Authoritarian regimes craft and disseminate reasons, stories, and
explanations for why they are entitled to rule. To shield those
legitimating messages from criticism, authoritarian regimes also
censor information that they find threatening. While committed
opponents of the regime may be violently repressed, this book is
about how the authoritarian state keeps the majority of its people
quiescent by manipulating the ways in which they talk and think
about political processes, the authorities, and political
alternatives. Using North Korea, Burma (Myanmar) and China as case
studies, this book explains how the authoritarian public sphere
shapes political discourse in each context. It also examines three
domains of potential subversion of legitimating messages: the
shadow markets of North Korea, networks of independent journalists
in Burma, and the online sphere in China. In addition to making a
theoretical contribution to the study of authoritarianism, the book
draws upon unique empirical data from fieldwork conducted in the
region, including interviews with North Korean defectors in South
Korea, Burmese exiles in Thailand, and Burmese in Myanmar who
stayed in the country during the military government. When analyzed
alongside state-produced media, speeches, and legislation, the
material provides a rich understanding of how autocratic
legitimation influences everyday discussions about politics in the
authoritarian public sphere. Explaining how autocracies manipulate
the ways in which their citizens talk and think about politics,
this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian
politics, comparative politics and authoritarian regimes.
How do dictatorships justify their rule and with what effects? This
and similar questions guide the contributions to this edited
volume. Despite the recent resurgence of political science
scholarship on autocratic resilience, many questions remain
unanswered about the role of legitimation in contemporary
non-democracies and its relationship with neighbouring concepts,
like ideology, censorship, and consent. The overarching thesis of
this book is that autocratic legitimation has causal influence on
numerous outcomes of interest in authoritarian politics. These
outcomes include regime resilience, challenger-state interactions,
the procedures and operations of elections, social service
provision, and the texture of everyday life in autocracies.
Researchers of autocratic politics will benefit from the rich
contributions of this volume. The chapters in this book were
originally published in a special issue of Contemporary Politics.
How do dictatorships justify their rule and with what effects? This
and similar questions guide the contributions to this edited
volume. Despite the recent resurgence of political science
scholarship on autocratic resilience, many questions remain
unanswered about the role of legitimation in contemporary
non-democracies and its relationship with neighbouring concepts,
like ideology, censorship, and consent. The overarching thesis of
this book is that autocratic legitimation has causal influence on
numerous outcomes of interest in authoritarian politics. These
outcomes include regime resilience, challenger-state interactions,
the procedures and operations of elections, social service
provision, and the texture of everyday life in autocracies.
Researchers of autocratic politics will benefit from the rich
contributions of this volume. The chapters in this book were
originally published in a special issue of Contemporary Politics.
Authoritarian states work hard to manage their images abroad. They
invest in foreign-facing media, hire public relations firms, tout
their popular celebrities, and showcase their successes to elite
and popular foreign audiences. However, there is a dark side to
these efforts that is sometimes overlooked. Authoritarian states
try to obscure or censor bad news about their governments and often
discredit their critics abroad. In extreme cases, authoritarian
states intimidate, physically attack, or even murder their
opponents overseas. All states attempt to manage their global image
to some degree, but authoritarian states in the post-Cold War era
have special incentives to do so given the predominance of
democracy as an international norm. This book is about how
authoritarian states manage their image abroad using both
"promotional" tactics of persuasion and "obstructive" tactics of
repression. Alexander Dukalskis looks at the tactics that
authoritarian states use for image management and the ways in which
their strategies vary from one state to another. Moreover,
Dukalskis looks at the degree to which some authoritarian states
succeed in using image management to enhance their internal and
external security, and, in turn, to make their world safe for
dictatorship. Making the World Safe for Dictatorship uses a diverse
array of data, including interviews, cross-national data on
extraterritorial repression, examination of public relations
filings with the United States government, analysis of
authoritarian propaganda, media frequency analysis, and speeches
and statements by authoritarian leaders. Dukalskis also builds a
new dataset-the Authoritarian Actions Abroad Database-that uses
publicly available information to categorize nearly 1,200 instances
in which authoritarian states repressed their critical exiles
abroad, ranging from vague threats to confirmed assassinations. The
book looks closely at three cases, China, North Korea, and Rwanda,
to understand in more detail how authoritarian states manage their
image abroad using combinations of promotional and obstructive
tactics. The result is a new way of thinking about the
international dimensions of authoritarian politics.
Authoritarian regimes craft and disseminate reasons, stories, and
explanations for why they are entitled to rule. To shield those
legitimating messages from criticism, authoritarian regimes also
censor information that they find threatening. While committed
opponents of the regime may be violently repressed, this book is
about how the authoritarian state keeps the majority of its people
quiescent by manipulating the ways in which they talk and think
about political processes, the authorities, and political
alternatives. Using North Korea, Burma (Myanmar) and China as case
studies, this book explains how the authoritarian public sphere
shapes political discourse in each context. It also examines three
domains of potential subversion of legitimating messages: the
shadow markets of North Korea, networks of independent journalists
in Burma, and the online sphere in China. In addition to making a
theoretical contribution to the study of authoritarianism, the book
draws upon unique empirical data from fieldwork conducted in the
region, including interviews with North Korean defectors in South
Korea, Burmese exiles in Thailand, and Burmese in Myanmar who
stayed in the country during the military government. When analyzed
alongside state-produced media, speeches, and legislation, the
material provides a rich understanding of how autocratic
legitimation influences everyday discussions about politics in the
authoritarian public sphere. Explaining how autocracies manipulate
the ways in which their citizens talk and think about politics,
this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian
politics, comparative politics and authoritarian regimes.
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