Autocracies and the temptation of sentimentality: repertoires of the past and contemporary meaning-making in the Gulf monarchies.
The scholarly debate on the durability of autocracies is vivid. It has explored a broad spectrum of regime types and respective sources and mechanisms of regime survival. A bias towards the strong effect of material means of regime survival, for example repression, cooptation or output-legitimation,...
| Publicado en: | Third World Quarterly Vol. 44; no. 5; pp. 1003 - 1021 |
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May2023
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