Henry Thomson

Watching the Watchers (eBook, ePUB)

Communist Elites, the Secret Police and Social Order in Cold War Europe

• Format: ePub

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009413626
• Artikelnr.: 70914018

Autorenporträt

Henry Thomson is an Associate Professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University. He has won fellowships and prizes from the American Political Science Association, Nuffield College, and Australian National University and is the author of Food and Power: Regime Type, Agricultural Policy and Political Stability (2019).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction and Theory: 1. Introduction
2. Theory
Part II. Comparative Historical Analysis: 3. Introduction to part II
4. The Polish People's Republic
5. The German Democratic Republic
Part III. Cross-National Quantitative Analysis: 6. Introduction to part III
7. Elite cohesion and coercive agent tenure
8. Officers and secret informants
Part IV. Conclusion: 9. Conclusion
Appendix A: Secret police agencies and chiefs
Appendix B: Survival analysis
Appendix C: Agency size analysis.