Dictators and their secret police coercive institutions and state violence

"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 ordinar...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Greitens, Sheena Chestnut (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, New York Cambridge University Press 2016.
Series:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
Cambridge studies in contentious politics.
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