Exciting to be on CNN yesterday, talking about insights from earlier work on elections in autocracies with Håvard Mokleiv Nygård and @torewig.bsky.socialwww.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Here’s a blogpost we wrote for the article back in 2017: www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-...@havardmn.bsky.social

Analysis | You’d think dictators would avoid elections. Here’s why they don’t.

Elections can be risky, but there are real benefits for autocratic regimes.