Research Handbook on Authoritarianism

Edited by Natasha Lindstaedt, Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex, UK and Jeroen J.J. Van den Bosch, Independent scholar (PhD), Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland

Contents:

Introduction to the Research Handbook on Authoritarianism 1
Natasha Lindstaedt

PART I UNDERSTANDING AUTHORITARIANISM
1 Typologies of autocratic regimes 11
Steffen Kailitz
2 Electoral authoritarianism: persistence and innovation in sub-Saharan Africa 25
Andrea Cassani and Giovani Carbone
3 Authoritarian populism 42
Ezgi Elçi
4 Autocratization and democratic backsliding 59
Alejandra López Villegas and Erica Frantz

PART II ACTORS, INSTITUTIONS AND STRATEGIES
5 The personalization of power in dictatorships 76
Abel Escribà-Folch and Joan C. Timoneda
6 Why size matters: the origins and effects of variation in party size in
revolutionary and non-revolutionary communist regimes 96
Martin K. Dimitrov
7 The authoritarian security apparatus: officer careers and the trade-offs
in command 111
Christian Gläßel, Belén González and Adam Scharpf

PART III COMMUNICATION, INFORMATION AND SUPPORT
8 Authoritarianism and digital communication 128
Eda Keremoğlu and Nils B. Weidmann
9 Citizen support for autocratic regimes 139
Marlene Mauk
10 Commitment and information problems in authoritarian regimes 153
Greg Chih-Hsin Sheen, Hans H. Tung and Wen-Chin Wu

PART IV PERFORMANCE AND POLICY
11 Authoritarian regimes, health and disease management 167
Natasha Lindstaedt
12 Authoritarian regimes and the reversal of economic reforms 182
Bumba Mukherjee and Nguyen Huynh
13 Authoritarian regimes and women’s rights 198
Daniela Donno
14 Authoritarian regimes and the environment 213
Natalie Koch

PART V SURVIVAL, TRANSITIONS AND STABILITY?
15 Authoritarian survival 229
Erica Frantz
16 Leadership succession 244
Thomas Ambrosio
17 The assassination of autocratic leaders 261
Abel Escribà-Folch
18 Patterns of de-personalization and leader succession within personalist regimes 276
Jeroen J.J. Van den Bosch
19 Pressure proofing: how authoritarian regimes respond to sanctions 300
Christian von Soest

PART VI CASE STUDIES
20 China: change and continuity 317
Julia Bader
21 Uganda: authoritarianism in the age of regular elections – a review of
the 2021 electoral violence 331
Jude Kagoro
22 Turkmenistan: authoritarianism, nation building and cult of personality 356
Sebastien Peyrouse
23 Egypt and Syria: the authoritarian republics of the Middle East 370
Raymond Hinnebusch
24 North Korea: what can it teach us about authoritarianism? 386
Alexander Dukalskis
Epilogue to the Research Handbook on Authoritarianism 399
Natasha Lindstaedt