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,...

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Published in:	Third World Quarterly Vol. 44; no. 5; pp. 1003 - 1021
Main Authors:	Demmelhuber, Thomas, Thies, Antonia
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd May2023
Subjects:	Middle East North Africa Monarchy Dictatorship Political systems Authoritarianism
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost