Search Results for: The Politics Of Authoritarian Rule

What drives politics in dictatorships? Milan W. Svolik argues authoritarian regimes must resolve two fundamental conflicts. Dictators face threats from the mass

Does authoritarian rule benefit from political repression? This book claims that it does, if restrictions and violence, two fundamentally different forms of rep

Autocrats must overcome a range of challenges as they seek to gain and maintain political power, including the threat that comes from both rival elites and disc

This volume examines theoretical and comparative perspectives on civil society activism under authoritarian constraints to offer a better understanding of its r

Scholars have generally assumed that courts in authoritarian states are pawns of their regimes, upholding the interests of governing elites and frustrating the