This book offers a fresh and original approach to the study of one of the dominant features of
the twentieth century. Adopting a truly global approach to the realities of modern dictatorship
this handbook examines the multiple ways in which dictatorship functions - both for the rulers
and for the ruled - and draws on the expertise of more than twenty five distinguished
contributors coming from European American and Asian universities. While confronting the
immense complexities of repression and popular response under dictatorship the volume also
poses a series of wide-ranging questions about the political organization of present-day mass
society.
