Splash Biography
MATTHEW MONTEQUIN, keeping the Jeep riding (see below)
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Major: Economics College/Employer: UChicago Year of Graduation: 2015 |
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Brief Biographical Sketch:
Not Available. Past Classes(Clicking a class title will bring you to the course's section of the corresponding course catalog)C1056: What Makes A Dictator? in Splash! Fall 2012 (Oct. 06, 2012)
In the early 1980s, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi issued a decree that all barbershops in his country close shop. Reasons cited for the intervention range from his decision that hair cutting did not constitute a productive profession to a nightmare in which he faced death at the shaving blade of a barber.
Of course, Gaddafi's position in Libya wasn't "dictator". (Technically, it was "Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution".) But was his action an exercise of dictatorial power? In this activity-led discussion about power, we will examine cases through history and attempt to set ground rules for what makes a dictator.
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