Coercive Institutions and State Violence
by
Sheena Chestnut Greitens
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
How do dictators stay in power? When, and how, do they use repression to do so? Dictators and their Secret Police explores the role of the coercive apparatus under authoritarian rule in Asia - how these secret organizations originated, how they operated, and how their violence affected ordinary citizens....