Flexible Authoritarianism : Cultivating Ambition and Loyalty in Russia Hardback
by Anna (Teacher of Sociology, Teacher of Sociology, Department of Social Sciences at Siegen Schwenck
Part of the Oxford Studies in Culture and Politics series
Hardback
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Flexible Authoritarianism challenges the idea that the transnational rise of authoritarianism is a backlash against economic globalization and neoliberal capitalism.
Flexible authoritarianism--a form of government that simultaneously incentivizes a can-do spirit and suppresses dissent--reflects the resonance between authoritarian and neoliberal ideologies in today's comeback of strongman rule.
The book conveys the look and feel of flexible authoritarianism in Russia through the eyes of up-and-coming youth. Drawing on field observations, in-depth interviews, and analyses of documents and video clips, Anna Schwenck demonstrates how flexible authoritarianism is stabilized ideologically by the insignia of cool start-up capitalism and by familiar cultural forms such as the summer camp.
It critically evaluates how loyalty to the regime--the order underlying political and economic life in a polity--is produced and contested among those young people who seek key positions in politics, business, the public sector, or creative industries.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:334 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:12/02/2024
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- ISBN:9780197751589
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:334 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:12/02/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9780197751589
