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Media features: The New York Times [1][2], The Boston Globe, Wired, HuffPost [1][2], La Nación, Buenos Aires Herald, Die Zeit, Der Tagesspiegel, Deutschlandfunk, Deutsche Welle, Radio France, The Globe and Mail, Jornal de Negócios, Krautreporter, Weekendavisen, Kristeligt Dagblad, Kompas, The Michael Fanone Show, Heritage Film Project, Folha de S.Paulo, Verfassungsblog, My Sister's a Therapist.
Book review: Democratization.
Award: EPSS Best Book Award.
Media Kit: Available here. Appendix: Available here.
Media features: The New York Times [1][2], The Boston Globe, Wired, HuffPost [1][2], La Nación, Buenos Aires Herald, Die Zeit, Der Tagesspiegel, Deutschlandfunk, Deutsche Welle, Radio France, The Globe and Mail, Jornal de Negócios, Krautreporter, Weekendavisen, Kristeligt Dagblad, Kompas, The Michael Fanone Show, Heritage Film Project, Folha de S.Paulo, Verfassungsblog, My Sister's a Therapist.
Book review: Democratization.
Award: EPSS Best Book Award.
Media Kit: Available here. Appendix: Available here.
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"An intellectual milestone." - James A. Robinson, University of Chicago; 2024 Nobel Laureate in Economics
"A must read for anyone interested in understanding the security apparatus that undergirds authoritarianism." - Jennifer Gandhi, Yale University "Mundane individual concerns often drive large-scale, collective phenomena. Scharpf and Gläßel provide a masterful demonstration of this important and relatively overlooked mechanism [...]." - Stathis N. Kalyvas, University of Oxford "This groundbreaking book [...] is sure to fascinate and inform students and observers of authoritarian politics alike." - Erica Frantz, Michigan State University "In the present era of democratic backsliding, it has become crucial to understand what motivates today's aspiring strongmen. This timely monograph does precisely that and it does it masterfully!" - Lars-Erik Cederman, ETH Zürich "Compelling reading for anyone seeking to understand the banality of evil, or at least of evil organizations." - Jacob N. Shapiro, Princeton University |
"This must-read and incredibly timely book explains how the handmaidens of authoritarianism and those risking their lives to stop it through coups are driven by the same misfortune: stalling careers in the security services." - Jennifer Earl, University of Delaware
"An exceptional contribution to the study of authoritarianism, coercion, and organizational politics […] Like 'The Logic of Violence in Civil War,' it has the potential to redefine how scholars think about the internal dynamics of coercive organizations. Few recent works in political science can claim as much." - Krzysztof Krakowski, King’s College London
"[The book] reads like what you might get if you crossed Hannah Arendt’s ideas about the 'banality of evil' with a business school guide on how to get the most out of low performers [...]. [Its] conclusions have implications for countries around the world grappling with the stability of their democracies - including the United States." - Amanda Taub, The New York Times
"An exceptional contribution to the study of authoritarianism, coercion, and organizational politics […] Like 'The Logic of Violence in Civil War,' it has the potential to redefine how scholars think about the internal dynamics of coercive organizations. Few recent works in political science can claim as much." - Krzysztof Krakowski, King’s College London
"[The book] reads like what you might get if you crossed Hannah Arendt’s ideas about the 'banality of evil' with a business school guide on how to get the most out of low performers [...]. [Its] conclusions have implications for countries around the world grappling with the stability of their democracies - including the United States." - Amanda Taub, The New York Times
The book is part of the The Anatomy of the Authoritarian Security Apparatus (AASAP) project,
funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
