Authoritarian regimes become more likely to democratize when they face little choice or little
risk. In some cases, the risk of democratization to authoritarian incumbents is so low that …

Ethnopopulism is an elite strategy for winning votes and concentrating power–a common
playbook for the erosion of liberal democracy that is empowered and justified by a …

How do some dictatorships become institutionalized ruled-based systems, while others
remain heavily personalist? Once implemented, do executive constraints actually play an …

This article examines the theoretical and empirical contributions of the interdisciplinary field
of memory studies for a comparative sociology of collective memory and politics. We identify …

This book argues that-in terms of institutional design, the allocation of power and privilege,
and the lived experiences of citizens-democracy often does not restart the political game …

It has long been assumed that the historical legacy of Soviet Communism would have an
important effect on post-communist states. However, prior research has focused primarily on …

How did Iraq become one of the most repressive dictatorships of the late twentieth century?
The conventional wisdom about Iraq's modern political history is that the country was …

Following the disestablishment of Communist Party rule in the Soviet bloc, political pressure
arose in nearly every East European country to cleanse the polity of legacies of the prior …

Since the 1980s a number of countries have established truth commissions to come to terms
with the legacy of past human rights violations, yet little is known about the achievements …

Identity is the master variable for many constructivist scholars of international politics. In this
comparative study, Richard Ned Lebow shows that states do not have identities any more …