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Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way, Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism

Princeton University Press, 2022, 656 pp., ISBN: 9780691169521

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  6. Clark, Revolutionary Spring.

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  10. Michael Cook, Ancient Religions, Modern Politics: The Islamic Case in Comparative Perspective (Princeton University Press, 2014).

  11. Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man (Hamish Hamilton, 1992).

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Dunn, J. Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way, Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism. Soc 60, 808–811 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-023-00901-5

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