The Arab uprisings of 2011 led to a reassessment of comparative politics research on
authoritarianism in the Middle East and North Africa. The Arab region made its way from …

How do regimes employ information to govern society and maintain control? Recent
scholarship argues that legibility is a fundamental component of state capacity, but the …

Autocrats use preventive repression to deter opposition mobilization. I show that repression
can be more intense and arbitrary under constraints that prevent the use of other policy …

Does political repression extinguish public support for opposition demands? Protest
emerges as a consequence of grievances and political preferences expressed as demands …

Why do some newspapers remain critical in contexts of antipress repression while others do
not? It has been argued that aggressions against journalists generate a deterrence effect on …

Secret police are generally viewed as key institutions in autocrats' repression apparatus.
However, we lack clear empirical evidence on the link between secret police and …

Governments repress using different logics. Responsive repression is employed in the
aftermath of dissent activities. Preemptive repression is applied in anticipation of challenges …

Despite evident and oft-cited disparities in the policing of right-wing extremists and more
progressive social movements, we understand much less about how such distinctions …

Much research examines the state-dissident nexus by large-n studies and rational choice
theories. This article contributes an analysis of dissident reasoning through a computational …

Kim Jong-un may have committed crimes against humanity, but in the eyes of President
Donald Trump, success proves him right. The American president said in an interview …