This accessible volume shines a light on how autocracy really works by providing basic facts
about how post-World War II dictatorships achieve, retain, and lose power. The authors …

Autocratic governments make claims about why they are entitled to rule. Some autocracies
are more talkative than others, but all regimes say something about why they deserve …

In a sample of 522 police officers and staff in an English police force, we investigated the
role of authoritarian leadership in reducing the levels of employee ethical voice (ie …

Authoritarian regimes craft and disseminate reasons, stories, and explanations for why they
are entitled to rule. To shield those legitimating messages from criticism, authoritarian …

Do remittances stabilize autocracies? Remittances—money sent by foreign workers to
individuals in their home country—differ from other sources of external non-tax revenue …

We survey recent theoretical and empirical literature on political economics of non-
democracies. Nondemocratic regimes face multiple challenges to their rule, both internal …

Authoritarian leaders maintain their grip on power primarily through preventive repression,
routinely exercised by specialized security agencies with the aim of preventing any …

We present a theory that addresses the question of why autocracies with a regime
legitimation which ties the destiny of the members of the ruling elite, namely the nobility or …

This book is an intellectual history of Ernst Fraenkel's The Dual State (1941, reissued 2017),
one of the most erudite books on the theory of dictatorship ever written. Fraenkel's was the …

In this article, we present the novel M3-dataset. This global dataset brings together 30
existing and newly developed indicators and a total of 140,000 observations on three …