Dictators and Their Secret Police - Coercive Institutions and State Violence

Informationen zum Autor Sheena Chestnut Greitens is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Missouri. She is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Center for East Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution and an associate in research at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University, Massachusetts. Her doctoral dissertation, on which this book is based, won APSA's Walter Dean Burnham Award for the best dissertation in politics and history, as well as Harvard's Richard J. Herrnstein Prize. Greitens' research focuses on East Asia, security studies, and the politics of authoritarian states. Her work has been published widely in the United States and Asia in academic, policy, and media outlets. Klappentext This book explores the secret police organizations of East Asian dictators: their origins, operations, and effects on ordinary citizens' lives. Zusammenfassung This book will be used in advanced undergraduate courses and graduate seminars on East Asia! authoritarianism! contentious politics! human rights! comparative politics! protest and repression! and international relations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. The Puzzle and the Argument: 1. Introduction; 2. A theory of coercive institutions and state violence; Part II. The Origins of Coercive Institutions: 3. Organizing coercion in Taiwan; 4. Organizing coercion in the Philippines; 5. Organizing coercion in South Korea; Part III. Coercive Institutions and State Violence: 6. Coercive institutions and repression in Taiwan; 7. Coercive institutions and repression in the Philippines; 8. Coercive institutions and repression in South Korea; Part IV. Extensions and Conclusions: 9. Extending the argument: coercion outside East Asia; 10. Conclusion; Appendix. A note on sources.

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• Authors: Sheena Chesnut Greitens, Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Sheena Chestnut (University of Missouri Greitens, Greitens Sheena Chestnut
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.08.2016
• EAN: 9781107139848
• ISBN: 978-1-107-13984-8
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics; Cambridge Studies in Contentio
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, International Relations, Comparative Politics, East Asia, Far East, Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship, Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship