How does political imprisonment influence anti-regime protest? We argue that political
imprisonment facilitates rather than stifles protest. Political imprisonment is a salient …

Mass opposition to authoritarian governments is caused by economic grievances and
factors which facilitate mobilization. In this article, I explore these competing explanations of …

How does domestic surveillance affect the frequency of political imprisonments in autocratic
states? In contrast to conventional wisdom, I argue that surveillance reduces the frequency …

Authoritarian regimes in the 21st century have increasingly turned to using information
control rather than kinetic force to respond to threats to their rule. This paper studies an often …

This article describes how national imaginaries of market reforms designed to accommodate
fast-growing Chinese regions, collide with embedded formal and informal governance …

Authoritarian regimes repress to prevent mass resistance to their rule. In doing so, regimes'
security forces require information about the dissidents who mobilize such resistance …

Autocratic regimes can use carrots and/or sticks to prevent being overthrown by protests.
Carrots, ie resource allocation, reduce the probability of protests, but cannot help to end …

A growing literature attributes the rapid diffusion of domestic collective mobilization against
authoritarian regimes to foreign mass media broadcasts. We examine this relationship in the …

It is widely assumed that authoritarian states tend to use repression to suffocate social
conflicts that threaten regime stability. Focusing on the Chinese state's responses to …

How do authoritarian states establish control in the wake of regime threatening shocks? The
1991 Uprisings—anti-regime protests across Iraqi provinces—were a turning point for …