Authoritarianism

In <em>Authoritarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know</em>® Erica Frantz guides us through today's authoritarian wave explaining how it came to be and what its features are. She also looks at authoritarians themselves focusing in particular on the techniques they use to take power the strategies they use to survive and how they fall. She stresses throughout that the type of authoritarian regime is important for understanding political outcomes.