If the end of the 20th century was defined by the relatively widespread acceptance of
democracy, the second decade of the 21st century is marked by concerns about backsliding …

There is increasing evidence that the renewed resilience of authoritarian regimes is due, in
part, to authoritarian learning. While scholarly interest in authoritarian learning is growing, it …

Non-democratic regimes have increasingly moved beyond merely suppressing online
discourse, and are shifting toward proactively subverting and co-opting social media for their …

Constructing convincing legitimacy claims is important for securing the stability of
authoritarian regimes. However, extant research has struggled to systematically analyse …

In 1999, as a freshman at Peking University, I lived on the Changping campus together with
about eight hundred other social sciences and humanities majors. The campus, located on …

A provocative and urgent analysis of the US–China rivalry. It has become conventional
wisdom that America and China are running a “superpower marathon” that may last a …

Abstract In 2017–18, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) changed its domestic security
strategy in Xinjiang, escalating the use of mass detention, ideological re-education, and …

Current scholarship increasingly argues that international factors and, more specifically,
authoritarian collaboration fundamentally affect the persistence of authoritarian rule. In order …

This article develops the menu of autocratic innovation to account for a perceived
transformation in the nature of autocratic rule. Drawing from an original list of 20 techniques …

There is a rich body of theorizing on the diffusion of democracy across space and time.
There is also an emerging scholarship on authoritarian diffusion. The dynamics of the …