Political leaders use different tactics to ensure widespread compliance with state policies
and to minimize resistance. Scholarship tends to treat different tactics individually …

How has populism transformed party systems in Europe? I survey the varieties of populism,
the sources of their support and the different ways that they appeal to voters. I use data from …

Ethnopopulism is an elite strategy for winning votes and concentrating power–a common
playbook for the erosion of liberal democracy that is empowered and justified by a …

What explains Putin's enduring popularity in Russia? In The Red Mirror, Gulnaz
Sharafutdinova uses social identity theory to explain Putin's leadership. The main source of …

States use repression to enforce obedience, but repression—especially if it is violent,
massive, and indiscriminate—often incites opposition. Why does repression have such …

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 …

Looking beyond Putin to understand how today's Russia actually works Media and public
discussion tends to understand Russian politics as a direct reflection of Vladimir Putin's …

Scholars are coming to terms with the fact that something is rotten in the new democracies of
Central Europe. The corrosion has multiple symptoms: declining trust in democratic …

It is widely believed that democracy requires public support to survive. The empirical
evidence for this hypothesis is weak, however, with existing tests resting on small cross …

Why, when, and how does populism emerge in a stable democracy? This article investigates
the political logic and ideological appeal of a rarely explored form of populism: technocratic …