pp. 435-452
Classification and Consolidation: Some Lessons from the Greek Dictatorship
Nancy Bermeo reexamines the concept of bureaucratic authoritarianism and argues that we have mistakenly applied it to dictatorships of fundamentally different natures. Comparing the short-lived Greek dictatorship of 1967-1974 to the states that gave rise to the model initially, she shows how misclassification leads us to misperception and erroneous predictions.
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