Political leaders use different tactics to ensure widespread compliance with state policies
and to minimize resistance. Scholarship tends to treat different tactics individually …

Current scholarship on elections in authoritarian regimes has focused on exploring the
relationship between elections and democratization, and it has generally used analytical …

This article studies the consequences of digital surveillance in dictatorships. I first develop
an informational theory of repression and co‐optation. I argue that digital surveillance …

Dictatorship is not what it was once. Military and single-party regimes have been withering
away. Today, most dictators organize multiparty elections. The Politics of Uncertainty …

A growing body of research suggests that authoritarian regimes are responsive to societal
actors, but our understanding of the sources of authoritarian responsiveness remains limited …

While it is often assumed that authoritarian regimes inevitably fear and restrict media
independence, permitting watchdog journalism can actually help such regimes maintain …

Several years after the Arab Spring began, democracy remains elusive in the Middle East.
The Arab Spring that resides in the popular imagination is one in which a wave of mass …

If the Arab uprisings initially heralded the end of tyrannies and a move toward liberal
democratic governments, their defeat not only marked a reversal but was of a piece with …

Since the end of the Cold War, more and more countries feature political regimes that are
neither liberal democracies nor closed authoritarian systems. Most research on these hybrid …

The uprisings which swept across the Arab world beginning in December 2010 pose a
serious challenge to many of the core findings of the political science literature focused on …