00000nam a2200000 i 4500 UP-1685675941122104004 Buklod 20231020155934.0 m o d cr |nu|||uuu|a 231020t20222022nju a r b|001 0|eng c 9780691224473 (paperback) 22261811 DLC DMLR rda eng DMLUC JC 480 G87 2022 Guriev, S. M. author. Spin dictators the changing face of tyranny in the 21st century Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman ; with a new preface by the authors. Princeton Princeton University Press [2022] ©2022 xi, 340 pages illustrations 24 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-326) and index. Part I: How it's done. Discipline, but don't punish ; Postmodern propaganda ; Sensible censorship ; Democracy for dictators ; Global pillage -- Part II: Why it's happening and what to do about it. The modernization cocktail ; The future of spin. Spin Dictators traces how leaders such as Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew and Peru's Alberto Fujimori pioneered less violent, more covert, and more effective methods of monopolizing power. The book reveals why most of today's authoritarians are spin dictators--and how they differ from the remaining "fear dictators" such as Kim Jong-un and Bashar al-Assad, as well as from masters of high-tech repression like Xi Jinping. Authoritarianism. Dictators. Propaganda. Spin doctors. Mass media Political aspects. Treisman, Daniel author. FO UPD DMLR JC 480 G87 2022 Book