The lure of typology is irresistible for social scientists, yet commonly used schemas classifying authoritarian politics still miss key variation. Our frameworks often rely on organisational assumptions set one level of abstraction too high. Julian G. Waller demonstrates how a closer look at constitutional structure can confront this problem
Some contemporary political developments take inspiration from fascism. But analogies between modern anti-liberal reaction and earlier totalitarian ideologies tend to obscure more than they enlighten. The concept of illiberalism allows us to make cross-national, ideational comparisons – especially transhistorical ones, writes Julian G. Waller
Associate Research Analyst, CNA Corporation and Professorial Lecturer in Political Science, George Washington University
Julian's research focuses on the institutional politics of authoritarian regimes, dynamics of illiberalism in Europe, Eurasia, and North America, and the substantive politics of the post-Soviet space.
He also works on Russian political-military decision-making.
