Challenging assumptions regarding the strength and control of authoritarian governments in Rwanda in the decades before the 1994 genocide, Marie-Eve Desrosiers uses original archival data and interviews to highlight the complex relations between authorities, opponents, and society. Through careful, detailed analysis Desrosiers offers a nuanced assessment of the functions and evolution of authoritarianism over time, demonstrating how the governments of Rwanda's first two post-independence Republics (1962–1990) sought and often struggled to cement their rule. Whilst the deeper, lived realities of authoritarianism are generally neglected by multi-cases comparisons at the heart of comparative authoritarian studies, this illuminating survey highlights the essential, yet subtle authoritarian strategies, patterns, and forms of decay that are too often overlooked when addressing authoritarian contexts.
| ISBN: | 9781009224789 |
| Publication date: | 19th January 2023 |
| Author: | MarieEve University of Ottawa Desrosiers |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 279 pages |
| Series: | African Studies |
| Genres: |
Political ideologies and movements |
Challenging assumptions regarding the strength and control of authoritarian governments in Rwanda in the decades before the 1994 genocide, Marie-Eve Desrosiers uses original archival data and interviews to highlight the complex relations between authorities, opponents, and society. Through careful, detailed analysis Desrosiers offers a nuanced assessment of the functions and evolution of authoritarianism over time, demonstrating how the governments of Rwanda's first two post-independence Republics (1962–1990) sought and often struggled to cement their rule. Whilst the deeper, lived realities of authoritarianism are generally neglected by multi-cases comparisons at the heart of comparative authoritarian studies, this illuminating survey highlights the essential, yet subtle authoritarian strategies, patterns, and forms of decay that are too often overlooked when addressing authoritarian contexts.
Trajectories of Authoritarianism in Rwanda features in the following genres: Political ideologies and movements
Trajectories of Authoritarianism in Rwanda is available in Hardback
Trajectories of Authoritarianism in Rwanda was written by MarieEve University of Ottawa Desrosiers and published by Cambridge University Press
Trajectories of Authoritarianism in Rwanda has 279 pages
Yes it is part of African Studies series
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