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Dictatorship and Information: Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Communist Europe and China
Dictatorship and Information: Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Communist Europe and China
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31 minutes
Released:
Mar 13, 2023
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Podcast episode
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In Dictatorship and Information, Martin K. Dimitrov offers an approach to understanding possible solutions to the dictator’s dilemma (the balance between authoritarian governments’ use of information communication technology for economic development and the need to control the democratizing influences of this technology), which arises from the difficulty of calibrating repression and concessions due to distorted information about elite and popular discontent. Dr. Dimitrov argues that communist regimes are adept at developing sophisticated systems that mobilize the party, state security, and internal journalism to assess levels of dissent. Drawing from evidence across multiple communist regimes and numerous interviews, Professor Dimitrov contributes to our understanding of how autocrats learn – or don’t learn – about the societies they rule, and how they maintain or lose their hold on power. In an interview conducted on March 7, 2023, Martin Dimitrov discusses information-gathering of communist regimes and how it extends authoritarian governments’ tenure with Kellee Tsai. About the speakers: https://www.ncuscr.org/video/dictatorship-information-china/ Read the transcript of this conversation Follow Kellee Tsai on Twitter: @HongKongKellee Subscribe to the National Committee on YouTube for video of this interview. Follow us on Twitter (@ncuscr) and Instagram (@ncuscr).
Released:
Mar 13, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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