独裁政治学阅读书目

专题阅读:

Introduction to Authoritarianism

• Linz, Juan J. Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000. (Chapter 1)
• Svolik, Milan W. The Politics of Authoritarian Rule. Cambridge University Press, 2012. (Introduction)
• Levitsky, Steven, and Lucan A. Way. "The Rise of Competitive Authoritarianism." Journal of Democracy 13, no. 2 (2002): 51-65.

Typologies of Dictatorships

• Geddes, Barbara. "What Do We Know About Democratization After Twenty Years?" Annual Review of Political Science 2 (1999): 115-144.
• Cheibub, José Antonio, Jennifer Gandhi, and James Raymond Vreeland. "Democracy and Dictatorship Revisited." Public Choice 143, no. 1 (2010): 67-101.
• Hadenius, Axel, and Jan Teorell. "Pathways from Authoritarianism." Journal of Democracy 18, no. 1 (2007): 143-157.

The Political Economy of Dictatorship

• Acemoglu, Daron, and James A. Robinson. Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. Cambridge University Press, 2006. (Chapters 1-3)
• Bueno de Mesquita, Bruce, et al. The Logic of Political Survival. MIT Press, 2003. (Chapter 1)
• Wintrobe, Ronald. The Political Economy of Dictatorship. Cambridge University Press, 1998. (Chapters 2-3)

Authoritarian Institutions and Co-optation

• Gandhi, Jennifer. Political Institutions Under Dictatorship. Cambridge University Press, 2008. (Chapters 1-4)
• Magaloni, Beatriz. Voting for Autocracy: Hegemonic Party Survival and its Demise in Mexico. Cambridge University Press, 2006. (Chapters 1-2)
• Boix, Carles, and Milan Svolik. "The Foundations of Limited Authoritarian Government: Institutions and Power-sharing in Dictatorships." Journal of Politics 75, no. 2 (2013): 300-316.

Repression and State Violence

• Davenport, Christian. State Repression and the Domestic Democratic Peace. Cambridge University Press, 2007. (Chapters 2-4)
• Escribà-Folch, Abel, and Joseph Wright. "Human Rights Violations, Institutional Change, and Regime Survival." International Studies Quarterly 59, no. 3 (2015): 357-370.
• Bellin, Eva. "The Robustness of Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Exceptionalism in Comparative Perspective." Comparative Politics 36, no. 2 (2004): 139-157.

Leadership, Succession, and Personalism

• Svolik, Milan W. The Politics of Authoritarian Rule. Cambridge University Press, 2012. (Chapters 4-6)
• Geddes, Barbara, Erica Frantz, and Joseph Wright. "Military Rule." Annual Review of Political Science 17 (2014): 147-162.
• Tullock, Gordon. Autocracy. Springer, 1987. (Chapters 1-2)

Information Control and Propaganda

• Guriev, Sergei, and Daniel Treisman. "How Modern Dictators Survive: Cooptation, Censorship, Propaganda, and Repression." Annual Review of Economics 11 (2019): 619-638.
• King, Gary, Jennifer Pan, and Margaret E. Roberts. "How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism but Silences Collective Expression." American Political Science Review 107, no. 2 (2013): 326-343.
• Wedeen, Lisa. Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria. University of Chicago Press, 1999. (Chapters 1-3)

The Role of Ideology in Dictatorship

• Friedrich, Carl J., and Zbigniew K. Brzezinski. Totalitarian Dictatorship and Autocracy. Harvard University Press, 1956. (Chapters 5-6)
• Linz, Juan J. "An Authoritarian Regime: Spain." In Cleavages, Ideologies, and Party Systems. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1970.
• Slater, Dan. Ordering Power: Contentious Politics and Authoritarian Leviathans in Southeast Asia. Cambridge University Press, 2010. (Chapter 4)

Regime Transitions to Dictatorship

• Huntington, Samuel P. The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century. University of Oklahoma Press, 1991. (Chapters 1-3)
• Levitsky, Steven, and Lucan A. Way. Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes After the Cold War. Cambridge University Press, 2010. (Chapters 2-4)
• Przeworski, Adam. Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Well-Being in the World, 1950-1990. Cambridge University Press, 2000. (Chapters 4-5)

Dictatorships and International Relations

• Weeks, Jessica L. Dictators at War and Peace. Cornell University Press, 2014. (Chapters 1-3)
• Levitsky, Steven, and Lucan A. Way. "Linkage, Leverage, and the Post-Cold War Authoritarianism." Journal of Democracy 16, no. 3 (2005): 20-34.
• Escribà-Folch, Abel. "Authoritarian Responses to Foreign Pressure: Spending, Repression, and Sanctions." Comparative Political Studies 45, no. 6 (2012): 683-713.

Regime Collapse and Transitions to Democracy

• O’Donnell, Guillermo, and Philippe Schmitter. Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Tentative Conclusions about Uncertain Democracies. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. (Chapters 2-3)
• Bratton, Michael, and Nicolas van de Walle. Democratic Experiments in Africa: Regime Transitions in Comparative Perspective. Cambridge University Press, 1997. (Chapters 6-7)
• Haggard, Stephan, and Robert R. Kaufman. The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions. Princeton University Press, 1995. (Chapters 1-2)

Hybrid Regimes and Competitive Authoritarianism

• Levitsky, Steven, and Lucan A. Way. Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes After the Cold War. Cambridge University Press, 2010. (Chapters 1-2)
• Diamond, Larry. "Thinking About Hybrid Regimes." Journal of Democracy 13, no. 2 (2002): 21-35.
• **Howard, Marc Morjé, and Philip

G. Roessler.** "Liberalizing Electoral Outcomes in Competitive Authoritarian Regimes." American Journal of Political Science 50, no. 2 (2006): 365-381.

The Digital Age and Dictatorship

• Gunitsky, Seva. "Social Media and the Authoritarian Breakdown: How Digital Information Threatens Autocratic Rule." Perspectives on Politics 15, no. 2 (2017): 42-65.
• Roberts, Margaret E. Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China’s Great Firewall. Princeton University Press, 2018. (Chapters 3-5)
• Lorentzen, Peter. "China’s Strategic Censorship." American Journal of Political Science 58, no. 2 (2014): 402-414.

Conclusion and Reflections

• Diamond, Larry, and Marc F. Plattner, eds. The Global Divergence of Democracies. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. (Selected Chapters)
• Levitsky, Steven, and Daniel Ziblatt. How Democracies Die. Crown Publishing, 2018. (Chapters 8-9)
• Schedler, Andreas. The Politics of Uncertainty: Sustaining and Subverting Electoral Authoritarianism. Oxford University Press, 2013. (Chapters 5-6)

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Supplementary Readings:

• Tullock, Gordon. The Social Dilemma of Autocracy, Revolution, Coup d'Etat, and War. Liberty Fund, 2005.
• Levitsky, Steven, and Lucan A. Way. Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism. Princeton University Press, 2022.
• Acemoglu, Daron, and James A. Robinson. The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty. Penguin, 2019.
• Fathali M. Moghaddam. The Psychology of Dictatorship. American Psychological Association, 2013.

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