7 Autocracies

Lecture

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Required Reading

Svolik, M. 2012. The Politics of Authoritarian Rule. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapters 1-3.

Gandhi, J. and Przeworski, A. 2007. ‘Authoritarian Institutions and the Survival of Autocrats,’ Comparative Political Studies, 40(11): 1279-1301.

Recommended Reading

Gandhi, J. 2008. Political Institutions under Dictatorship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 3. Presentation by Giorgio

Mattingly, D. 2024. ‘How the Party Commands the Gun: The Foreign-Domestic Threat Dilemma in China,’ American Journal of Political Science, 68(1): 227-242. Presentation by Gabriele