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More chapters of the Oxford Handbook of Authoritarian Politics are out👇 With Barbara Geddes on how autocracies begin, Daniela Donno on democracy promotion, Tomila Lankina on social structure and autocracy & Erica Frantz on personalist dictatorship👇 academic.oup.com/edited-volume/…

More chapters of The Oxford Handbook of Authoritarian Politics are available, presenting new research on digital authoritarianism, succession, authoritarian diffusion, religion and authoritarianism, women's rights, and the psychology of authoritarianism🧵👇academic.oup.com/edited-volume/…

Thrilled that my article on ruling parties and authoritarian collapse during the Arab Uprisings has been published as part of a special issue on (and with!) Theda Skocpol, as well as Stathis Kalyvas Hugo Drochon 🇺🇦 and Markus Kreuzer. It's available open access 👇👇👇journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

How did China become big and autocratic? Professor Yuhua Wang Yuhua Wang delivers this year’s Lee Lecture in Political Science and Government at All Souls College. Fascinating research!

Really important scholarship programme at Oxford for scholars of and, especially, from Tunisia. Please share and circulate. This is going to be great!

More chapters of The Oxford Handbook of Authoritarian Politics are out, with contributions on authoritarian practices, contentious politics, authoritarian learning, legitimacy and legitimisation, and quantitative approaches to investigate dictatorships🧵 academic.oup.com/edited-volume/…

Elizabeth Perry and I scrutinise an important but understudied variety of contentious politics: state-mobilized movements, that is, movements that are actively promoted, overtly or covertly, by elements of the state itself, and which are critical to authoritarian resilience.

I still have two review copies of my book on Tunisia's Ben Ali regime, which looks at the dynamics of contention within his ruling party, and how these contributed to regime collapse in 2011. Who would like to read and review the book? 👉global.oup.com/academic/produ…

More chapters of The Oxford Handbook of Authoritarian Politics have been published, with contributions on authoritarian legacies, the political opposition, dictatorships in Europe, and gendered forms of state repression 👇🧵academic.oup.com/edited-volume/…

New review of my book on Tunisia's Ben Ali regime. Thanks to Konstantinos Theocharopoulos for taking the time to read and review my book, which focuses on contention within Ben Ali's ruling party, the Constitutional Democratic Rally (RCD). 👇👇 tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.108…

Thrilled that my article “How Erroneous Beliefs Trigger Authoritarian Collapse: The Case of Tunisia, January 14, 2011” is now out Comparative Political Studies. It is the result of over a decade of research into the day the Ben Ali regime collapsed. Available open source🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

It shows how the microanalysis of events can furnish new insights into highly impactful events in history—the collapse of the Ben Ali regime gave rise to the wider Arab Uprisings—and topics of key concern to scholars of contentious politics, authoritarianism, and democratization.

A conference co-organised by King’s academic Jeroen Gunning together with colleague Morten Valbjørn from Aarhus University highlighted the findings and insights of a major research project 🔖 Read more 👇 kcl.ac.uk/news/major-res…

I didn't know that #PoliticalScience articles could be #trending, but I am pleased to learn that my new Comparative Political Studies piece on the collapse of the Ben Ali dictatorship seems to draw interest. It's available open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

More chapters of The Oxford Handbook of Authoritarian Politics have been published! I am so grateful to all the handbook contributors––there are over 80!––who have worked so hard to pull off this project! academic.oup.com/edited-volume/… 👇🧵

Sarah Eaton and Genia Kostka’s chapter on Environmental Authoritarianism shows how a focus on authoritarian survival strategies—co-optation, legitimization, and repression—sheds entirely new light on the varieties of environmental authoritarianism.

Lee Morgenbesser has compiled twenty-nine “lost” authoritarian politics books published between 1875-1948, and he investigates how these works challenge our assumptions about the history of the authoritarian politics literature, and what we can still learn from them.

#OpenAccess from Perspectives on Politics - Armed Groups in the Middle East and Conflict Research - cup.org/43cLE6F - Raphaël Lefèvre #FirstView

Armed Groups in the Middle East and Conflict Research Perspectives on Politics Raphaël Lefèvre cambridge.org/core/journals/…