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
What drives politics in dictatorships? Milan W. Svolik argues authoritarian regimes must resolve two fundamental conflicts. Dictators face threats from the mass
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
Does authoritarian rule benefit from political repression? This book claims that it does, if restrictions and violence, two fundamentally different forms of rep
Based on a detailed study of 35 cases in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and post-communist Eurasia, this book explores the fate of competitive authoritarian regim
