We provide a unified language for studying power sharing in authoritarian regimes. Power-
sharing deals entail not only sharing spoils between a ruler and challenger, but also …

This article reviews the burgeoning literature on democratic authoritarianism, which
examines two related but distinct questions: why authoritarian regimes adopt institutions …

When the leader of an autocratic regime loses power, one of three things happens. The
incumbent leadership group is replaced by democratically elected leaders. Someone from …

From the 1980s through the first decade of the twenty-first century, the spread of democracy
across the developing and post-Communist worlds transformed the global political …

Political selection is central to the survival of all regimes. This article evaluates the relative
importance of performance and political connection for the advancement of local politicians …

This article uncovers a new mechanism linking oil wealth to autocratic regime survival: the
investigation tests whether increases in oil wealth improve the survival of autocracies by …

This article presents a new typology and a new dataset of political regimes (1946–2010).
The classification presented is based, in theoretical terms, on the distinctive patterns of …

Whereas optimists see the so-called Arab Spring as similar to the revolutions of 1989, and
likely to bring about democratic rule, skeptics fear that protest bringing down dictators may …

Do elections reduce or increase the risk of autocratic regime breakdown? This article
addresses this contested question by distinguishing between election events and the …

A key debate in the new literature on authoritarianism concerns the role of institutions in
general and legislatures in particular. While much of the literature accepts that authoritarian …