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Review Article: Why Does Putinism Endure? Dialoguing With the Dictator
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Kathryn Stoner
Political Science Quarterly, qqae125, https://doi.org/10.1093/psquar/qqae125
Published: 08 January 2025
... dictatorship autocratic durability regime resilience informational dictatorship Previously, however, Putinism was the gold standard of what some see as “modern” authoritarianism. Modern autocrats are supposed to be different from the brutal dictators of the twentieth century who scared their people...
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Racial (In)justice in Brazil: Reconstructing the Subaltern Memories of Poor and Black Women in the Brazilian Dictatorship
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Pablo Pamplona and others
International Journal of Transitional Justice, Volume 18, Issue 1, March 2024, Pages 49–65, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijad035
Published: 31 January 2024
... four of his pronouncements in the Plenary, one mentioned the military-corporate dictatorship or related events, such as the promulgation of AI-5 (Institutional Act No. 5), the Amnesty Law and the National Truth Commission (Comissão Nacional da Verdade, hereinafter: NTC). 1 The ex...
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Strategies of Dictatorship and Military Disloyalty during Anti-Authoritarian Protests: Explaining Defections and Coups
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Kara Kingma Neu
Journal of Global Security Studies, Volume 7, Issue 1, March 2022, ogab033, https://doi.org/10.1093/jogss/ogab033
Published: 10 January 2022
... in Benin. 23 11 2020 27 10 2021 01 12 2021 protests dictatorship civil–military relations coups defections Africa Palabras clave: protestas dictadura relaciones cívico-militares golpes de estado deserciones áfrica Mots clés: protestations dictature relations entre civils et...
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Curating the forensic gaze in traumatic memorial sites: Recalibrating the sense of materiality in Santiago's Londres-38
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Mario Di Paolantonio
Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 55, Issue 3, June 2021, Pages 516–533, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.12581
Published: 08 September 2021
...Mario Di Paolantonio Abstract This paper focusses on the forensic work put on display at Londres-38, a building in Santiago Chile designated as a National Monument, which once functioned as a torture and extermination centre under Pinochet's dictatorship. Striving to avoid conventional memorial...
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Knowing What I Know Now: Youth Experiences of Dictatorship and Transitional Justice in the Gambia
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Aminata Ndow
International Journal of Transitional Justice, Volume 15, Issue 3, November 2021, Pages 596–615, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijab017
Published: 19 July 2021
..., and the meanings they attribute to these revelations, transitional justice scholars and practitioners can gain a more holistic understanding of how youth experience and make sense of transitional justice processes. Dictatorship everyday life memory Truth Reconciliation and Reparations Commission of the Gambia...
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Brazilian Portrayals of Indigenous Rights in Western Europe during the 1970s and 1980s
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Anna Isabella Grimaldi
Journal of Human Rights Practice, Volume 12, Issue 2, July 2020, Pages 321–340, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/huaa026
Published: 10 October 2020
... and protests, a wide range of activities contributed to the emerging transnational human rights movement. For the most part, activists focused on the themes of political repression, torture, inequality and development. However, at some point during the dictatorship, the discourse of Brazilians...
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Political Resistance Posters During Pinochet’s Dictatorship in Chile: Approaching the Graphic Backroom
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Nicole Cristi and Javiera Manzi Araneda
Journal of Design History, Volume 32, Issue 1, February 2019, Pages 69–87, https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epy013
Published: 13 April 2018
..., Standard Journals Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) Abstract This article presents the rather unknown experience of two of the most prolific graphic collectives during the military dictatorship in Chile (1973-1989...
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Socialism from Below: Kommunalpolitik in the East German Dictatorship between Discourse and Practice
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Christian Rau
German History, Volume 36, Issue 1, March 2018, Pages 60–77, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghx120
Published: 25 November 2017
..., 1 it is hardly imaginable that such a concept could exist under a dictatorship in which one Communist party sought to rule every part of society. Thus in research literature, local administrations mostly appear to have been passive managers of shortage and administrators of the permanent crises...
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Dictators Walking the Mogadishu Line: How Men Become Monsters and Monsters Become Men
Shaun Larcom and others
The World Bank Economic Review, Volume 32, Issue 3, October 2018, Pages 584–609, https://doi.org/10.1093/wber/lhw039
Published: 04 August 2016
... individual rising to power can end up as either a moderate leader, or as a dreaded tyrant. Since derailment is accidental and accompanied by ex-post regret, increasing accountability can be in the interest of both the public and the dictator. Dictatorship learning multiple steady states political violence...
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Transforming Tunisia: Transitional Justice and Internet Governance in a Post-Revolutionary Society
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Christalla Yakinthou and Sky Croeser
International Journal of Transitional Justice, Volume 10, Issue 2, July 2016, Pages 230–249, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijw004
Published: 05 March 2016
... of future work in considering how TJ can begin addressing Internet governance as a vital aspect of conflict resolution and rebuilding. Internet governance Tunisia dictatorship censorship surveillance This research has obvious limitations. First, it is a single case study with an individual organization...
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‘Victim’: What Is Hidden behind This Word?
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Tessa Lacerda
International Journal of Transitional Justice, Volume 10, Issue 1, March 2016, Pages 179–188, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijv028
Published: 24 November 2015
... credibility in modern dictatorships because, unlike what transpired in tyrannies of the past, terror started being used as a weapon. Totalitarian terror in the 20th century does not seek justification in individual behavior: ‘victims are innocent even from the persecutor’s perspective.’ 9...
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Though This Be Adaptation, Yet There Is Method in’t. Film Re-titling for Spanish Viewers
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Catalina Iliescu Gheorghiu
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Adaptation, Volume 9, Issue 2, August 2016, Pages 142–163, https://doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apv024
Published: 22 September 2015
...Catalina Iliescu Gheorghiu Adaptation in film re-titling Franco’s dictatorship non-translation. The aim of this article is to identify and analyse the trans-individual conditioners determining the film re-titling process for Spanish audiences over time. I will focus...
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The Political Limits to Judicial Reform in China
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Lance L. P. Gore
The Chinese Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 2, Issue 2, October 2014, Pages 213–232, https://doi.org/10.1093/cjcl/cxu009
Published: 13 October 2014
... a weak and unreliable basis for the rule of law. Nevertheless, there is substantial room for the law in issue areas that are non-threatening to the CCP rule. liberal and socialist constitutionalism dictatorship of the proletariat rule of law democracy class struggle Great hope for the rule of law...
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To Talk or Not to Talk: Silence, Torture, and Politics in the Portuguese Dictatorship of Estado Novo
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Miguel Cardina
The Oral History Review, Volume 40, Issue 2, Summer-Fall 2013, Pages 251–270, https://doi.org/10.1093/ohr/oht052
Published: 06 August 2013
...Miguel Cardina Understanding the matter of “talking or not talking” in the face of torture and police violence means also understanding how the question has remained alive after the fall of the dictatorship. This article draws on wider research into Maoism in Portugal between 1964 and 1974, from...
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The Limits of Control: The ‘Public Discourse’ about the Uprising of 17 June 1953 in Novels and Films in the German Democratic Republic
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Richard Millington
German History, Volume 31, Issue 1, March 2013, Pages 42–60, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghs122
Published: 18 February 2013
...) was officially taboo. Thus, though the Party did not enjoy complete control of society, it did succeed in indirectly influencing citizens to ‘control’ themselves publicly. East Germany 17 June 1953 censorship taboo ordinary citizens dictatorship On 17 June 1953 an uprising against the ruling Socialist Unity...
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Exiles, Art, and Political Activism: Fighting the Pinochet Regime from Afar
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Jacqueline Adams
Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 26, Issue 3, September 2013, Pages 436–457, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fes041
Published: 17 December 2012
... the coastal village of Isla Negra. The very first dictatorship-era arpilleras were in wool and cloth, but the women who made them switched to cloth and appliqué, arguably at the suggestion of an artist who assisted them, and who claimed to have drawn inspiration from American quilts and the molas...
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The People's Sport? Popular Sport and Fans in the Later Years of the German Democratic Republic
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Jutta Braun
German History, Volume 27, Issue 3, July 2009, Pages 414–428, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghp034
Published: 01 July 2009
....’ 42 So, unlike with windsurfing, from then until the fall of the GDR those practising karate could only do so illegally. The failure of karate to establish itself shows very clearly how far ‘participation in the dictatorship’ was permitted: even the most cleverly thought-out petition campaign...
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Despots Masquerading as Democrats
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Kenneth Roth
Journal of Human Rights Practice, Volume 1, Issue 1, March 2009, Pages 140–155, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/hun001
Published: 01 March 2009
... that the population does not need them as intermediaries because it participates directly in governance through government-staged assemblies. Ordinary electoral fraud is one of the most common strategies to circumvent the uncertainties of democracy: civil society democracy promotion dictatorship elections...
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Commemorating World War II in Northern Greece: Controversy and Reconsideration
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Iro Katsaridou and Anastasia Kontogiorgi
Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 44, Issue 2, April 2008, Pages 140–154, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqn009
Published: 01 April 2008
... dictatorship (1967–1974) to honour the victims of World War II who gave their lives for their country. It sheds light on the process behind the creation of “The Sword”, analysing also its artistic style and visual references in connection with the historical conditions of its creation. The article also...
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Tyrannophobia
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Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule
Published: 16 June 2011
... an independent and sufficient safeguard against dictatorship. It also blocks the desirable grants to authority. Animal Farm Bush George W Caesar Julius Cromwell George III Hitler Adolf James II Mao Tse Tung 1984 Obama Barack political constraints public opinion Stalin Joseph tyrannophobia authority...
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