You have likely heard of the “dictator’s dilemma,” in which repression reduces knowledge of discontent and thus loosens an autocrat’s hold on power. But is the dilemma real? And what do dictators do to ease it? We have an answer. osf.io/preprints/so...
and since I just had reason to talk about it in another conversation, here's my own Five Books
On a sad occasion, I wrote a second column for @MoscowTimes on the same day: www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/03/20/v.... RIP Vasily Utkin, born the same year and yet my youth hero.
Thanks, Scott - that’s a great honor! And please check out the companion page for slides and other materials: sites.google.com/view/tore-el...
Tore sent me his book manuscript before it went to press, and I confess I was so busy at the time I did not give it the read it deserved. I just now have—and it’s great! There are so many uses for this text. I will be using it next year in a GT-focused College core course.
A translation for political scientists of this generous obituary: David Bordwell was the William Riker of film studies. He made a science out of film studies, through his work and through the community that he built around him. And yes, he always sat in the front row.
His scholarship focused on how movies work. Roger Ebert called him “our best writer on the cinema.”
No, not even a band I like. But a good story nonetheless. (Aerosmith)