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- No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffices in the long term. A tyrant who can compel his own people to acclaim him will last longer.
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Mar 2, 2024 · Hitler, for example, used an intense propaganda campaign and orchestrated a climate of fear and violence through the Nazi Party to secure his authority. Mao Zedong, on the other hand, emerged as a dictator following his successful military leadership during a protracted civil war.
Sep 23, 2016 · Repression remains the core feature of dictatorships, and fear, terror, violence, intimidation and surveillance are at the core of the systems of political domination and maintenance of modern dictatorships.
- António Costa Pinto, Filipa Raimundo
- 2016
Jun 8, 2020 · Here, we highlight several important areas of theoretical and empirical refinements, which can provide a more nuanced picture of the process through which authoritarian attitudinal legacies emerge and persist.
- Anja Neundorf, Grigore Pop-Eleches
- 2020
Nov 20, 2019 · No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffices in the long term.
Nov 8, 2018 · This paper formalizes insights about how fear influences participation in risky collective action such as citizen revolt against an autocratic regime. To do so we build a global game and analyze the effects that fear may have on participation through increasing pessimism about the regime’s strength, increasing pessimism about the ...
- Abraham Aldama, Mateo Vásquez-Cortés, Lauren Elyssa Young
- 2019
Jan 29, 2019 · It is easier to govern and dictate to citizens through fear. As Hannah Arendt wrote in her book, The Origins of Totalitarianism: “A fundamental difference between modern dictatorships and all other tyrannies of the past is that terror is no longer used as a means to exterminate and frighten opponents, but as an instrument to rule masses of ...
Dictatorships of fear have given way to spin dictators. Mass repression has been replaced by distorting information and simulating democratic procedures. The masters of the new dark arts of authoritarian governance are Vladimir Putin, Viktor Orbán and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
