How Dictatorships Work

Barbara Geddes, Joseph Wright, Erica Frantz

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Reviewed in: Democratization, Foreign Affairs, Perspectives on Politics

Cited in: The Economist, The New York Times

Published project research:

Marius Mehrl and Abel Escribà-Folch. “The Dictator’s Legionnaires: Foreign Recruitment, Coups, and Uprisings.” 2023. Democratization. Reproduction files.

Joan C. Timoneda, Abel Escribà-Folch, and John J. Chin. “The Rush to Personalize: Power Concentration after Failed Coups in Dictatorships.” 2023. British Journal of Political Science. Reproduction files.

John J. Chin, Wonjun Song, and Joseph Wright. “Personalization of Power and Mass Uprisings in Dictatorships.” 2022. British Journal of Political Science. Reproduction files.

John J. Chin, Abel Escribà-Folch, Wonjun Song, and Joseph Wright. 2022. “Reshaping the Threat Environment: Personalism, Coups, and Assassinations.” Comparative Political Studies.   PreprintReproduction files.

Wonjun Song. 2022. “Dictators, Personalized Security Forces, and Coups.” International Interactions. Reproduction files.

Abel Escribà-Folch and Joseph Wright. 2022. “Why the best way to stop strongmen like Putin is to prevent their rise in the first place.” The Conversation.

Joseph Wright. 2021. “The Structure of Autocratic Rule.Political Science Research and MethodsAppendixPersonalism dataReproduction files.

Erica Frantz, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Joseph Wright, and Xu Xu. 2020. “Personalization of Power and Repression in Dictatorships.” Journal of Politics. Appendix. Reproduction files. Cited in the Interpreter by the New York Times

Erica Frantz, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, and Joseph Wright. 2018. “Did Xi Jinping just become China’s strongman? Not quite.” Washington Post. 13 March 2018

Wonjun Song and Joseph Wright. 2018. “The North Korean Autocracy in Comparative Perspective.”  Journal of East Asian Studies.

 

 

 


This project is supported by the National Science Foundation (BCS-0904478) and the Minerva Research Initiative (ONR N000141211004)