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8.2.1 Series 1. 8.2.2 ... (Freeman's original title was "From Democracy to Dictatorship") ... Both series are available on DVD – in the UK from Network Video and in ...
The Edge of Democracy (Portuguese: Democracia em Vertigem) is a 2019 Brazilian documentary film directed by Petra Costa.The film follows the political past of the filmmaker in a personal way, in context with the first term of President Lula and the events leading to the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, analyzing the rise and fall of both presidents as well as the 2014 socio-political crisis that ...
Barrington Moore Jr. (12 May 1913 – 16 October 2005) [1] was an American political sociologist, and the son of forester Barrington Moore. He is well-known for his Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy (1966), a comparative study of modernization in Britain, France, the United States, China, Japan, Russia, Germany, and India. [2]
Democracy indices are quantitative and comparative assessments of the state of democracy [1] for different countries according to various definitions of democracy. [ 2 ] The democracy indices differ in whether they are categorical, such as classifying countries into democracies, hybrid regimes , and autocracies , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] or continuous ...
Anocracy, or semi-democracy, [1] is a form of government that is loosely defined as part democracy and part dictatorship, [2] [3] or as a "regime that mixes democratic with autocratic features". [3] Another definition classifies anocracy as "a regime that permits some means of participation through opposition group behavior but that has ...
From Dictatorship to Democracy, A Conceptual Framework for Liberation is a book-length essay on the generic problem of how to destroy a dictatorship and to prevent the rise of a new one. [1] The book was written in 1993 by Gene Sharp (1928–2018), a professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts. The book has been published ...
Democracies and dictatorships in 2008 [1] Democracies and dictatorships in 1988 [1]. Democracy-Dictatorship (DD), [1] index of democracy and dictatorship [2] or simply the DD index [3] or the DD datasets was the binary measure of democracy and dictatorship first proposed by Adam Przeworski et al. (2010), and further developed and maintained by Cheibub, Gandhi, and Vreeland (2009). [4]
The notion that, in a democracy, the greatest concern is that the majority will tyrannise and exploit diverse smaller interests, has been criticised by Mancur Olson in The Logic of Collective Action, who argues instead that narrow and well organised minorities are more likely to assert their interests over those of the majority. Olson argues ...