Ideocracies in comparison: legitimation, co-optation, repression

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I Ideocracy: Term and concept -- 1 "Ideocracy": A sketch of the history of a concept -- 2 Ideocracy, or the birth of violence out of detrivialized morale -- 3 Ideological self-limitation in ideocracies -- 4 Legitimation, co-optation, and repression in ideocracies: A rational choice perspective -- 5 Do ideocracies constitute a distinct subtype of autocratic regimes? -- PART II Ideocratic regimes in history and the present day -- 6 Legitimation and repression in the Soviet state (1917-91) -- 7 Legitimation, co-optation, and repression in Fascist Italy -- 8 Legitimation, co-optation, and repression in the National Socialist regime -- 9 Legitimation, repression, and co-optation in the German Democratic Republic -- 10 Fine-tuning legitimation, co-optation, and repression in the People's Republic of China -- 11 Ideocratic legitimation in North Korea: Its history and challenges -- 12 Political rule in revolutionary Cuba between legitimation, co-optation, and repression -- PART III Ideocracies in comparison -- 13 The legitimizing role of palingenetic myth in ideocracies -- 14 Legitimation through performance? Output legitimacy in autocratic regimes -- 15 Characteristics of the integration of elites and citizens in ideocracies -- 16 National Socialist and Communist violence compared: A contribution to the research on repression and oppression in ideocracies -- 17 Results -- Index.