id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 2j62s46720v Alexander Dukalskis Ideology and Authoritarian Persistence: Shaping the Public Sphere in North Korea and Burma 2013 .txt text/plain 196 6 26 This dissertation examines how circumscription and manipulation of the public sphere contributes to the persistence of authoritarian regimes. The dissertation illustrates how the ideologies of the DPRK and the Burmese junta worked to forestall critiques about authoritarian rule — even if many citizens were dissatisfied with the state's authoritarian practices — by limiting and manipulating discussion in the political public sphere. cache/2j62s46720v.txt txt/2j62s46720v.txt