TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ben-Ghiat,Ruth
TI  - Strongmen: Mussolini to the present
SN  - 9780393868418
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - W.W. Norton & Company
KW  - Herrschaftssystem
KW  - Machtwechsel
KW  - Regierungswechsel
KW  - Erde
KW  - rswk
KW  - Guest Speaker
KW  - Class of Fall 2022
N1  - Literaturhinweise, Literaturverzeichnis: Seite  329-350, Register
N2  - "What modern authoritarian leaders have in common (and how they can be stopped). Ours is the age of authoritarian rulers: self-proclaimed saviors of the nation who evade accountability while robbing their people of resources and corroding or destroying democracy. Their mutual-admiration club also draws on models from the past. Vladimir Putin rehabilitates Soviet tyrant Joseph Stalin, Donald Trump praises Libyan despot Muammar Gaddafi, Jair Bolsonaro admires Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, and Recep Tayyip Erdogan invokes Adolf Hitler as the model of an efficient leader. Ruth Ben-Ghiat covers a century of authoritarianism to explain why strongman rulers in Africa, Europe, and Latin America, drawing from a common playbook of machismo, propaganda, violence, and corruption, have found popular support even as they bring ruin to their countries. The fruit of decades of research, Strongmen gives readers insight into how such rulers think, who and what they depend on, and how they can be opposed"--
UR  - https://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780393868418.pdf
ER  -