Authoritarian power sharing: Concepts, mechanisms, and strategies

A Meng, J Paine, R Powell - Annual Review of Political Science, 2023 - annualreviews.org
We provide a unified language for studying power sharing in authoritarian regimes. Power-
sharing deals entail not only sharing spoils between a ruler and challenger, but also …

Populist leaders and the economy

M Funke, M Schularick, C Trebesch - American Economic Review, 2023 - aeaweb.org
Populism at the country level is at an all-time high, with more than 25 percent of nations
currently governed by populists. How do economies perform under populist leaders? We …

Geopolitical and economic interests in environmental governance: explaining observer state status in the Arctic Council

N Filimonova, A Obydenkova, VG Rodrigues Vieira - Climatic Change, 2023 - Springer
Which factors lead states to apply for observer status in the Arctic Council (AC)? What
explains the acceptance of those applications? In 2013, the AC underwent its most …

Disinformation 'gatecrashes' tourism: An empirical study

PN Vasist, S Krishnan - Annals of Tourism Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Disinformation poses a formidable threat to the tourism industry, but empirical studies
remain limited. Recognizing this escalating crisis, this study undertakes a theoretically …

Powered by innovation, derailed by disinformation: A multi-country analysis of the influence of online political disinformation on nations' innovation performance

PN Vasist, S Krishnan - Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2024 - Elsevier
A nation's development is determined by its predisposition for innovation and commitment to
fostering innovation ecosystems. However, the political structures and disinformation within …

From causes to consequences: Investigating the effects of differentiated integration on citizens' EU support

I Vergioglou, S Hegewald - European Union Politics, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Research on differentiated integration has paid considerable attention to its causes.
However, we know very little about its consequences. Using the synthetic control method …

WhatsApp and political communication in West Africa: Accounting for differences in parties' organization and message discipline online

J Fisher, E Gadjanova, J Hitchen - Party Politics, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Social media has become central to how political parties plan, organize, and coordinate
electoral campaigns in Africa, with WhatsApp increasingly the preferred medium. How, we …

Revisiting the islam-patriarchy nexus: is religious fundamentalism the central cultural barrier to gender equality?

C Öztürk - Zeitschrift für Religion, Gesellschaft und Politik, 2023 - Springer
Is Islam a religion that promotes patriarchy? In the academic debate, there are different
assessments. On the one hand, there is the thesis of an elective affinity between Islam and …

Greening global governance: INGO secretariats and environmental mainstreaming of IOs, 1950 to 2017

T Dörfler, M Heinzel - The Review of International Organizations, 2023 - Springer
The last decades have seen a remarkable expansion in the number of International
Organizations (IOs) that have mainstreamed environmental issues into their policy scope …

Chasing the authoritarian spectre: Detecting authoritarian discourse with large language models

M MOCHTAK - European Journal of Political Research, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The paper introduces a deep‐learning model fine‐tuned for detecting authoritarian
discourse in political speeches. Set up as a regression problem with weak supervision logic …