Polisky Dictatorsky 📣 The CALL for PAPERS for our Spring 2025 season is now open! We welcome presentations by early-career scholars studying authoritarian politics across methodological approaches, regional areas, and fields Find more information: apsg.work/cfp/apsg.work/cfp/
The Authoritarian Political Systems Group is pleased to announce a Call for Papers. We are accepting submissions for our new season of online workshops taking place from 28 January 2025 to 6 May 20…
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Polisky Dictatorsky In a new paper in the Journal of Development Economics, Chen et al find that Chinese officials who experienced the Great Famine as children increase year-end spending surges reducing fiscal efficiency and hindering local economic development. Read it here: tinyurl.com/mry9ycf9
This study investigates the impact of government officials’ childhood famine experiences on year-end spending surges (YESS), a phenomenon where organi…
Polisky Dictatorsky The Authoritarian Divide: Populism, Propaganda, and Polarization is out! In it, @orcunselcuk.bsky.socialundpress.nd.edu/978026820807...
In the context of the global decline of democracy, The Authoritarian Divide analyzes the tactics that populist leaders in Turkey, Venezuela, and Ecuador have...
Polisky Dictatorsky Yale PhD Candidate and USIP Peace Scholar Haley Allen DeMarco is on the job market this fall. Her research focuses on strategies of state repression, security reform, and policing in authoritarian and post-authoritarian contexts, with a focus on Latin America's Southern Cone.
Polisky Dictatorsky! To understand authoritarianism, do we just need to understand the leader or the 'regime'? Brown, Schaaf, Anabtawi, and Waller raise the possibility that we have to take state institutions seriously as well in their new book. Find it here! press.umich.edu/Books/A/Auto...
Authoritarianism seems to be everywhere in the political world—even the definition of authoritarianism as any form of non-democratic governance has grown very broad. Attempts to explain authoritarian ...
📣 Next Tuesday, 24 September (8:00am PST, 11:00am EST, 5:00pm CET) Xing Chen (Fudan) will present "Old Boys' Power Illusion: Hometown Elites' Promotion and Political Trust" Rory Truex (Princeton) and Minh Trinh (Purdue) will discuss. Subscribe here to get the Zoom link: mailchi.mp/fe045331c9c7...
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