Thesis
What is the nature of authoritarian regimes?: responsive authoritarianism in China
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This work proposes a new theory of authoritarian regimes: responsive authoritarianism. Most existing theories of autocracies take as their point of departure elite politics or the state’s repressive apparatus to explain the rise and fall of regimes. I argue that, for many states, regimes also have to consider the consent of the governed when designing policies.
Specifically, when regime legitimacy is low but the central leadership maintains a long time horizon, autocratic regimes ar...
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Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2015
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- Oxford University, UK
Item Description
- Language:
- English
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- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- ora:11352
- Deposit date:
- 2015-05-01
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- Copyright holder:
- MacDonald, A
- Copyright date:
- 2015
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