In recent years, scholars of authoritarianism have noted a trend in which institutions
designed to check arbitrary power have been hollowed out to facilitate its exercise. As they …

Religious repression--the non-violent suppression of civil and political rights--is a growing
and global phenomenon. Though most often practiced in authoritarian countries, levels of …

Over the past quarter century new ideologies of participation and representation have
proliferated across democratic and non-democratic regimes. In Participation without …

How differing forms of repression shape the outcomes of democratic transitions In the wake
of the Arab Spring, newly empowered factions in Tunisia and Egypt vowed to work together …

Why is there so much alleged electoral fraud in new democracies? Most scholarship focuses
on the proximate cause of electoral competition. This article proposes a different answer by …

This article discusses how electoral irregularities contributed to democratic backsliding in
Venezuela under chavista rule (1999-2019). It draws from an original database of electoral …

Russian foreign policy thinkers have used a succession of geopolitical imaginaries to
articulate a Russian role and identity in the post-Cold War era. This essay analyses one …

After many decades and billions of dollars spent, the effects of foreign democracy promotion
interventions remain poorly understood, particularly in authoritarian contexts. Do these …

The meme of the Arab Spring is characterized by bottom-up change, or the lack thereof, and
its effects are still unfurling today. The Routledge Handbook of the Arab Spring seeks to …

When international conflict causes an authoritarian leader's popularity to soar, extant
theories lead us to treat such “rallying” as sincere preference change, the product of surging …