The Relationship between External Crises and National Commemorative Narratives in Autocracies

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Brief Overview

Use: authoritarian regimes tend to adopt more self-centered narratives;prioritize image-shaping of self and others; varying approach to narratives based on regime type (individualist vs. party-based) to explain commemorative narratives in crises.

Author

• Chialin Kao, Rutgers University