Coercive Institutions and State Violence under Authoritarianism
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2013-11-07
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Ohio State University. Mershon Center for International Security Studies
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How do autocrats construct their coercive apparatus, and why do these institutions engage in different levels of violence and repression? Despite a wave of recent interest in authoritarian politics, the origins, design, and behavior of coercive institutions that embody the state's monopoly on violence remain relatively unexamined. This project examines the origins and operation of the coercive apparatus in three Cold War anticommunist authoritarian regimes -- Taiwan, the Philippines, and South Korea. She argues that autocrats face an organizational trade-off between designing their internal security apparatus to deal with a popular threat, or coup-proofing it to defend against elite rivals.
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coercive behavior, Cold War, authoritarianism