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The Psychology of Dictatorship Author: Fathali M. Moghaddam
ISBN: 9781433812989
Format: Hardcover
Number Of Pages: 255
Published: 31 March 2013
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 25.4 x 18.0 x 2.3
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How do countries become dictatorships?
What social, political, and interpersonal dynamics create opportunities for despots to take and maintain control?
And how are dictatorships overthrown?
Ever since World War II, social scientists have recognized the crucial importance of these questions. Yet despite the great strides made in our understanding of dictatorships, most studies in this area are undertaken by academics in liberal democracies who view totalitarian societies from the "outside in," a perspective that has caused researchers to ignore crucial elements of everyday life and to misunderstand the role of ideology and brute force in totalitarian societies.
In this book, Fathali Moghaddam presents his "springboard model" of dictatorship, derived from both a substantive analysis of the common structures underlying dictatorial regimes and his own personal experience of life in a modern dictatorship. He discusses the importance of psychological processes such as displacement of aggression, conformity, obedience, fear, and cognitive dissonance as tools that aid the development a...
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