Dictators and Autocrats - 9780367607869

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Dictators and AutocratsSecuring Power across Global Politics\nAuthor(s): Klaus Larres\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367607869, 978-0367607869\nSynopsis\nIn order to truly understand the emergence, endurance, and legacy of autocracy, this volume of engaging essays explores how autocratic power is acquired, exercised, and transferred or abruptly ended through the careers and politics of influential figures in more than 20 countries and six regions.\n\nThe book looks at both traditional \""hard\"" dictators, such as Hitler, Stalin, and Mao, and more modern \""soft\"" or populist autocrats, who are in the process of transforming once fully democratic countries into autocratic states, including Recep Tayyip Erdo?an in Turkey, Brazilian leader Jair Bolsonaro, Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines, Narendra Modi in India, and Viktor Orbn in Hungary. The authors touch on a wide range of autocratic and dictatorial figures in .