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Podcast: New Books in American Politics
Episode: How Do Autocrats Stay in Power: A Discussion with Johannes Gerschewski
Description: In this episode Licia Cianetti talks to Johannes Gerschewski about hisĀ bookĀ The Two Logics of Autocratic RuleĀ (CambridgeĀ UP, 2023). We discuss how autocrats try to either hyper-politicise or de-politicise their rule in order to stay in power, whether the word āfascistā is useful today, and what the two logics identified in the book might tell us about politics in contemporary autocratising democracies. As we recorded during Johannesās stay at Thomas Mann House in LA, soon after the US 2024 elections, a lot of this had unavoidably to do with Trump. *This episode was recorded soon after the US elections...