TY  - BOOK
AU  - Greitens,Sheena Chestnut
TI  - Dictators and their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence 
U1  - 363.28/3095 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Dictatorship
KW  - Intelligence service
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Aug 2016)
N2  - How do dictators stay in power? When, and how, do they use repression to do so? Dictators and their Secret Police explores the role of the coercive apparatus under authoritarian rule in Asia - how these secret organizations originated, how they operated, and how their violence affected ordinary citizens. Greitens argues that autocrats face a coercive dilemma: whether to create internal security forces designed to manage popular mobilization, or defend against potential coup. Violence against civilians, she suggests, is a byproduct of their attempt to resolve this dilemma. Drawing on a wealth of new historical evidence, this book challenges conventional wisdom on dictatorship: what autocrats are threatened by, how they respond, and how this affects the lives and security of the millions under their rule. It offers an unprecedented view into the use of surveillance, coercion, and violence, and sheds new light on the institutional and social foundations of authoritarian power
ER  -