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The Dictator's Learning Curve: Inside the Global Battle for by William J. Dobson

By William J. Dobson

During this riveting anatomy of authoritarianism, acclaimed journalist William Dobson takes us contained in the conflict among dictators and those that might problem their rule. contemporary background has visible a major second within the warfare among dictators and democracy—with waves of protests sweeping Syria and Yemen, and despots falling in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya. however the Arab Spring is barely the newest entrance in a world conflict among freedom and repression, a conflict that, until eventually lately, dictators were successful hands-down. the matter is that today’s authoritarians usually are not just like the frozen-in-time, ready-to-crack regimes of Burma and North Korea. they're ever-morphing, technologically savvy, and across the world attached, and feature changed extra brutal different types of intimidation with sophisticated coercion. The Dictator’s studying Curve explains this ancient second and gives an important perception into the struggle for democracy.

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Dependent and Independent Variables Analyzing Secularism: History, Ideology, and Policy 15 Alternative Theories: Modernization, Civilization, and Rational Choice Modernization theory, civilizational approach, and rational-choice theory are three important theories that scholars refer to while analyzing religion and politics. Modernization theory has different versions. 24 They offer important insights for the analysis of the historical ruptures in the United States, France, and Turkey through secular state building.

58 I specify this broad point by examining religions’ political relations during the state-building period, which is generally the critical juncture that creates a path dependence concerning state-religion interactions. In certain cases, modern state building defines an ancien régime based on the marriage between the old monarchy and religious hegemony, which is perceived by the progressive elite as a barrier against the new republican regime. The main product of an ancien régime is the anticlerical (or antireligious) movement against it.

79 Lyon and Die 2000; Monsma and Soper 1997, 87–120. 80 Capoccia and Kelemen 2007, 341. 76 77 28 Secularism and State Policies toward Religion War (1870–1871), and the Turkish War of Independence (1919–1922). Moreover, in all cases, there existed powerful agents, ideological groups, that were willing and able to form the new order during the structural crisis. When the new system becomes consolidated, it creates a path dependence. 83 In my analysis they range from one and a half decades in the United States and Turkey to three decades in France.

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