Tag: Autocrat

Free Download Max Grömping, "Lobbying the Autocrat: The Dynamics of Policy Advocacy in Nondemocracies "
English | ISBN: 047207590X | 2023 | 368 pages | EPUB | 1191 KB
Although authoritarian countries often repress independent citizen activity, lobbying by civil society organizations is actually a widespread phenomenon. Using case studies such as China, Russia, Belarus, Cambodia, Malaysia, Montenegro, Turkey, and Zimbabwe, Lobbying the Autocrat shows that citizen advocacy organizations carve out niches in the authoritarian policy process, even influencing policy outcomes. The cases cover a range of autocratic regime types (one-party, multi-party, personalist) on different continents, and encompass different systems of government to explore citizen advocacy ranging from issues such as social welfare, women’s rights, election reform, environmental protection, and land rights. They show how civil society has developed adaptive capacities to the changing levels of political repression and built resilience through ‘tactful contention’ strategies. Thus, within the bounds set by the authoritarian regimes, adaptive lobbying may still bring about localized responsiveness and representation.

Free Download Nicholas I: Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias by W. Bruce Lincoln
English | 1978 | ISBN: 025320254X | 424 Pages | PDF | 13.3 MB
This present study, among other things, redresses the balance to some extent in Nicholas’s favor. Certainly it is not intended as an apology for Russia’s firm, sometimes cruel, Emperor. It is, however, an effort to view Nicholas as his contemporaries saw him and, given the distance of some 150 years since his accession, to place him and his policies in a more balanced historical perspective.

Free Download Timothy R. Heath, "The Autocrat’s Predicament: The Political Peril of Economic Upgrade in Single-Party Authoritarian Regimes"
English | ISBN: 1666947393 | 2023 | 232 pages | EPUB, PDF | 315 KB + 2 MB
In their quest for national revival, China’s leaders under Xi Jinping have sought to improve the economy’s performance. The disappointing economic record of authoritarian regimes provides ample grounds for doubt, yet not all have failed. Why have some succeeded where most did not? The theory of the "enabling condition" highlights the central role that politics plays in the pursuit of economic advancement. The theory explains that a political situation characterized by a strong central leadership, weak elite opposition, and a united public offers favorable prospects for enacting concentrated growth policies. This arrangement enables the central leadership to enlist the public in convincing elites to implement policies that they might otherwise resist. Focusing on the experience of single party, authoritarian regimes, The Autocrat’s Predicament: The Political Peril of Economic Upgrade in Single Party, Authoritarian Regimes examines episodes in the histories of the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, and the Soviet Union. It concludes that China’s unfavorable political situation could be potentially unfriendly for its ambitions to build an efficient, highly productive economy.