When Do Authoritarian Regimes Use Digital Technologies for Covert Repression? A Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) of Politico-Economic Conditions

This is a replication dataset together with the QCA script used for the analysis of the article "When Do Authoritarian Regimes Use Digital Technologies for Covert Repression? A Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) of Politico-Economic Conditions" submitted to the Swiss Political Science Review in 2024, for the special issue "Re-Authoritarianisation with Digital Means? Recent Developments in Digital Politics in East Central Europe and Central Asia". The package contains the following elements: 1) The original QCA dataset with references. 2) The supplementary dataset with the calculations related to autocratic linkages. 3) The R script used for the QCA. 4) A Word printout of the SMMR QCA results - possible combinations of countries for case studies exploring individual explanatory conditions.