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Explains how dictatorships rise, survive, and fall, along with why some but not all dictators wield vast powers.
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Barbara Geddes is a professor of Political Science at University of California, Los Angeles. Her 1999 article in the Annual Review of Political Science is credited with changing the way social scientists think about dictatorships. She developed the theoretical reasons for using characteristics of the group that established the dictatorship as the basis for explaining dictatorial decisions and began the first systematic collection of data about these groups and the dictatorships they initiated. She has written extensively on regime transition and dictatorship, as well as research design in comparative politics.
Joseph Wright is an associate professor of Political Science at Pennsylvania State University and co-director of the Global and International Studies Program. He has written extensively on how international factors, such as foreign aid, economic sanctions, human rights prosecutions, and migration, influence domestic politics in dictatorships. He is the author of multiple articles on these themes published in a variety of political science journals, as well as the award-winning book (with Abel Escriba-Folch) Foreign Pressure and the Politics of Autocratic Survival (2015).
Erica Frantz is an assistant professor of Political Science at Michigan State University. She specializes in authoritarian politics, democratization, conflict, and development. She is particularly interested in communicating the security and policy implications of autocratic rule and regularly interfaces with the policy community. Her work has appeared in multiple academic journals and a variety of policy-oriented outlets. She has also published five books on dictatorships and development, the most recent of which is Authoritarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know (forthcoming).
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