Data availability has long been a challenge for scholars of authoritarian politics. However, the promotion of open government data -- through voluntary initiatives such as the Open Government Partners
In this paper, we replicate and extend Jeremy Wallace's ``Cities, Redistribution, and Authoritarian Regime Survival", originally published in \textit{The Journal of Politics} (2013). Using cross-natio
This article proposes the use of the indicator of elite rotation to deepen the understanding of the phenomenon of authoritarian cooptation. The high frequency of changes in the ruling coalition can ha
The Chinese government was distinctly open to the Western offer of democracy assistance programs. Between the mid-1990s and the mid-2010s, the Chinese government cooperated with a number of Western or
