When can we realistically expect ordinary people to check the authoritarian ambitions of
elected politicians? An answer to this question is key to understanding the most prominent …

The countries of the Western Balkans during the 1990s were dominated by competitive
authoritarian regimes that combined multi-party elections with nationalist rhetoric and the …

An influential body of scholarship argues that authoritarian regimes design “hard”
propaganda that is intentionally heavy-handed in order to signal regime power. In this study …

From the 1980s through the first decade of the twenty-first century, the spread of democracy
across the developing and post-Communist worlds transformed the global political …

We propose a novel explanation for the most prevalent form of democratic breakdown after
the end of the Cold War: the subversion of democracy by incumbents. In the classics of …

Conventional wisdom says that autocrats manipulate news through censorship. But when it
comes to economic affairs—a highly sensitive topic for modern autocrats—the government's …

From decades of scholarship, we know that the economy matters for government support
and election outcomes. Key generalizations are now possible. As the economy improves …

Vladimir Putin has managed to achieve strikingly high public approval ratings throughout his
time as president and prime minister of Russia. But is his popularity real, or are respondents …

Studies the transformation of Russian domestic politics and foreign policy under Vladimir
Putin Asks what kind of political system 'Putinism'denotes Engages with the scholarly and …

In this research we aimed to explore the importance of partisanship behind the belief in wish-
fulfilling political fake news. We tested the role of political orientation, partisanship, and …