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September 2, 2022

♟️ Political purges and their importance for dictators

Austin Scott Matthews

Political purges are dramatic, yet common, events in dictatorships, sometimes bloody and highly consequential. By dissecting the sequence of decisions behind these events, Austin S. Matthews shows that the way a dictator goes about a purge can determine outcomes like regime survival and risk of a coup

August 26, 2022

♟️ Military coups are key to understanding contemporary autocracies

Sebastian Elischer

Many autocracies emerge through military coups, but studies of hybrid regimes and electoral autocracies largely disregard the role of militaries in their trajectory. Sebastian Elischer shows how armies consolidate their power when they take control and suggests a further research agenda

August 23, 2022

🦋 ♟️ Control over militaries is the forgotten landmark of democracy after imperialism

Hager Ali

When democracies’ most basic features lose their distinctive edge, differentiating regime types becomes a problem for scholars of democracy and autocracy alike. Hager Ali wants to redraw demarcations between regimes across the political spectrum. To do so, she argues that civilian control over militaries is just as fundamental as suffrage

August 19, 2022

♟️ Why autocrats’ strategies of legitimation are worth studying

Nahla El-Menshawy

Legitimacy is as vital to the consolidation of authoritarian regimes as it is in democracies, where it is more studied. Nahla El-Menshawy illustrates how regime type, ideology, and historical legacies influence autocratic legitimation strategies

August 12, 2022

♟️ Before categorising autocracies, we need to count them accurately

Edward Goldring

Hager Ali launched this series by pointing out that 'we lack the terminology to do anything beyond counting non-democracies'. Yet Edward Goldring argues that we sometimes struggle to accurately do that. This raises troubling questions for analyses of non-democracies – and emphasises the importance of studying history

July 11, 2022

♟️ Autocracy in democracy’s mirror

Matthijs Bogaards

Can we see autocracy more clearly if we see it as the opposite of democracy? Or do we need to look at autocracy as a category in its own right? Matthijs Bogaards provides an answer through a critical examination of the concept of defective autocracy, the mirror of defective democracy.

July 7, 2022

♟️ A 'cat-dog' called electoral autocracy

Adrián del Río

Since the 80s, electoral autocracy has been considered the most common form of dictatorship. Yet, as Adrián del Río shows, little is known about what this regime is and how we can recognise it. There is, in fact, only a 34% probability of datasets agreeing on examples

June 7, 2022

♟️ The rise of ‘information autocracies’: Kazakhstan and its constitutional referendum

Bakhytzhan Kurmanov

To understand today’s autocratic regimes, we should look at how they exploit social media, argues Bakhyzhan Kurmanov. In Kazakhstan, a referendum in the name of ‘open government’ is effectively a sham. What's more, it is a cover for autocratic practices of silencing dissent

May 31, 2022

♟️ Varieties of authoritarianism, and how they might be studied

Catherine Owen

Catherine Owen argues that understanding how regime type influences public sector performance can illuminate varieties of ‘authoritarian public policy’ and the resilience of authoritarian states. To do so, she calls on the fields of public administration and comparative politics to work together

May 11, 2022

♟️ Why we must understand civilian participation in military rule

Salah Ben Hammou

Researchers of authoritarian politics and civil-military relations have long examined military rule. However, our understanding of civilian participation in military regimes remains limited and requires greater analytical attention, argues Salah Ben Hammou. Amid last year’s coup resurgence, researchers must move to appreciate the subtle but salient differences among military dictatorships

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♟️ Political purges and their importance for dictators

♟️ Military coups are key to understanding contemporary autocracies

🦋 ♟️ Control over militaries is the forgotten landmark of democracy after imperialism

♟️ Why autocrats’ strategies of legitimation are worth studying

♟️ Before categorising autocracies, we need to count them accurately

♟️ Autocracy in democracy’s mirror

♟️ A 'cat-dog' called electoral autocracy

♟️ The rise of ‘information autocracies’: Kazakhstan and its constitutional referendum

♟️ Varieties of authoritarianism, and how they might be studied

♟️ Why we must understand civilian participation in military rule

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