This syllabus on authoritarian politics might be useful. I found these parts especially interesting (some are papers rather than books, but hopefully close enough):
The mention of that Acemoglu and Robinson book also reminds me that I’ve had Why Nations Fail on my list of books to maybe read for a while. Since Why Nations Fail is relatively “iconic”, sounds probably at least somewhat relevant to this cluster of topics, and is available as an audiobook, I’ll probably give that a listen in the coming months.
Thanks! Also interested in this.
This syllabus on authoritarian politics might be useful. I found these parts especially interesting (some are papers rather than books, but hopefully close enough):
“What Do We Know About Democratization After Twenty Years?” (Geddes, 1999)
Discusses the relative longevity of different kinds of authoritarian regimes
“Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic” (Berman, 1997)
On how the Nazi Party used civic associations to expand its power in the Weimar Republic
Parts of Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes (Linz, 1975), especially from ch. 2:
Pp. 65-71 on definitions of totalitarianism
Pp. 129-136 on criticisms of the concept of totalitarianism
P. 137 has a list of earlier scholarly work on democratic backsliding (pretty old though)
Development as Freedom (Sen, 1999), especially pp. 178-88
On the fact that “There has never been a famine in a functioning multiparty democracy”
Also:
Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy (Acemoglu and Robinson, 2005)
Historical case studies and model of transitions to (and from) authoritarianism
I really liked ch. 2 as an overview
Thanks Mauricio!
Those do sound interesting.
The mention of that Acemoglu and Robinson book also reminds me that I’ve had Why Nations Fail on my list of books to maybe read for a while. Since Why Nations Fail is relatively “iconic”, sounds probably at least somewhat relevant to this cluster of topics, and is available as an audiobook, I’ll probably give that a listen in the coming months.