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 …

Bureaucracy is everywhere. Unelected bureaucrats are a key link between government and
citizens, between policy and implementation. Bureaucratic politics constitutes a growing …

INTRODUCTION More than one-fourth of the world's population lives in conditions of
insecurity because of high levels of crime and violence, especially in the Global South …

How do some dictatorships become institutionalized ruled-based systems, while others
remain heavily personalist? Once implemented, do executive constraints actually play an …

Patron–client networks are widely found in governments of transitional societies and are
often seen as an impediment to effective governance. This article advances an alternative …

When and why do people obey political authority when it runs against their own interests to
do so? This book is about the channels beyond direct repression through which China's …

The administrative state is a powerful tool because it can control the population and, in
moments of crisis, help leaders put down popular threats to their rule. But a state does not …

In many countries, police are both guardians of public safety and the primary instruments of
state repression. Used to quell dissent, excessive police action can drive further collective …

In countries around the world, politicians distribute patronage jobs to supporters in
exchange for a wide range of political services–such as helping with campaigns and …

Existing research on distributive politics mainly focuses on the influence of electoral
competition between political parties, but less is known about non-electoral mechanisms of …