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

The second half of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century have
witnessed an unprecedented expansion of one-party autocracies. One-party regimes have …

How a new breed of dictators holds power by manipulating information and faking
democracy Hitler, Stalin, and Mao ruled through violence, fear, and ideology. But in recent …

This accessible volume shines a light on how autocracy really works by providing basic facts
about how post-World War II dictatorships achieve, retain, and lose power. The authors …

According to the United Nations, Myanmar's Rohingyas are one of the most persecuted
minorities in the world. Only now has the media turned its attention to their plight at the …

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 …

Offering a single, coherent framework of the political, economic, and social phenomena that
characterize post-communist regimes, this is the most comprehensive work on the subject to …

Protest event analysis is an important method for the study of collective action and social
movements and typically draws on traditional media reports as the data source. We …

Like the postcolonial world more generally, Southeast Asia exhibits tremendous variation in
state capacity and authoritarian durability. Ordering Power draws on theoretical insights …

Despite the prevalence of nonviolent uprisings in recent history, no existing scholarship has
produced a generalized explanation of when and where such uprisings are most likely to …