Spin Dictators
by Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman
Modern autocrats rule by manipulation and manufactured popularity, not mass terror: data on the shift from fear to spin. Original political science.
Read it if…
you want how dictatorship changed in the twenty-first century.
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Skip it if…
you want Cold War models.
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Three things you will actually use
- Spin replaces fear.
- Fake democracy is a strategy.
- Information is the battlefield.
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Read the chapter on the new model.
Our verdict
Guriev and Treisman.
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