Monday, 16 March 2020

Ensuring Point Stability in Week 4


Do whatever, the points are meaningless. Join the revolution

 So in order to avoid another incident like what occurred in lecture today, we need to ensure that all of the readings will be covered from week to week. The following is a list of the readings from week 4, comment whichever reading you are planning to do, and if someone is already planning on doing it, then (for the sake of Xavier's exercise) it would be in our best interests of the entire class for you to switch:

 If there is anyone who knows someone with access with the other blog, would you be able to get them to crosspost this list, cheers.
  • How dictatorships work: power, personalization, and collapse
  • The Politics of Authoritarian Rule
  • The Return to Personalistic Rule
  • Stalin as dictator: the personalisation of power
  • ‘Working Towards the Führer.’ Reflections on the Nature of the Hitler Dictatorship
  • Personal Rule: Theory and Practice in Africa
  • Dynamics of the Inner Elite in Dictatorships: Evidence from North Korea
  • The Emperor Mobutu
  • African Personal Dictatorships
  • Sultanistic regimes
  • Explaining Transitions from Neopatrimonial Dictatorship
  • Revolution 1989: the fall of the Soviet empire
  • Libya: the rise and fall of Qaddafi
  • THE NORTH KOREAN AUTOCRACY IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
  • An Institutional Analysis of Xi Jinping’s Centralization of Power
  • Libya's Qaddafi: the politics of contradiction
  • Taking it personal? Investigating regime personalization as an autocratic survival strategy
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4 comments:

  1. Sophie Auckram16 March 2020 at 18:41

    There's also the other blog you will need to coordinate with if you want this to be effective

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  2. Jean17 March 2020 at 16:31

    I would like to do "Revolution 1989: the fall of the Soviet empire" please

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  3. briolaurn17 March 2020 at 20:42

    I'll do "An Institutional Analysis of Xi Jinping’s Centralization of Power."

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  4. Jean23 March 2020 at 07:43

    Someone did mine, ill do THE NORTH KOREAN AUTOCRACY IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE- i mean, if we are even bothering to coordinate now?

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