{"product_id":"political-regimes-andrew-v-kudin-9781971325125","title":"Political Regimes: Democracy, Authoritarianism, and Totalitarian Rule, Volume I","description":"\u003cp\u003ePower no longer needs to announce itself. It adapts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePolitical Regimes, Volume I examines how modern political power is organized, justified, experienced, and endured. Moving beyond formal constitutional labels, Andrew V. Kudin studies regimes through the lived pressure they place on human beings: the fear of speaking, the cost of dissent, the seduction of order, the burden of freedom, and the gradual transformation of citizens into spectators, subjects, or believers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume covers democratic and authoritarian forms of rule. Its first part analyzes direct, representative, liberal, electoral, and illiberal democracy, tracing both the promise of political freedom and the institutional fragility that allows participation to decay into performance. Its second part turns to authoritarian regimes - military, personalist, bureaucratic, electoral, and party-based - and examines how obedience is normalized, opposition is contained, and power learns to preserve the appearance of legality while narrowing the space of political life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrounded in political theory and vivid historical cases, from ancient Athens and postwar Germany to Pinochet's Chile, Franco's Spain, and Chávez's Venezuela, the book joins institutional analysis with a psychological reading of fear, conformity, loyalty, loneliness, and the human desire to belong to something stronger than oneself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePolitical Regimes, Volume I is written for readers of political philosophy, comparative politics, history, civic education, and anyone seeking to understand how freedom is weakened not only by open violence, but by procedure, fatigue, compromise, and the reasonable concessions by which societies slowly surrender the power to govern themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis first volume examines democratic and authoritarian regimes. Volume II continues the inquiry with totalitarian, transitional, and hybrid forms of rule.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew V. Kudin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1971325120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781971325125\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Kudin \u0026amp; Sons Academic Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/11\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 340\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.37lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d","brand":"Andrew V. Kudin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48874734977279,"sku":"9781971325125","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/political-regimes-andrew-v-kudin-9781971325125","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}