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The World Urban Forum: A global stage for authoritarian urbanism?

Nicholas Goedeking, Michael Roll, Lena Gutheil - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
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Where’s the dēmos in Democracy? Building Democratic Futures and Resisting Autocracy

Niranjan Nampoothiri, Miguel Loureiro, Steve Metcalfe et al. - Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
Democracy is in crisis. Anti-democratic politicians and anti-rights movements are becoming more popular. Simultaneously, growing inequality around the world – a product of neoliberal capitalist societies – has left millions of people feeling left behind and alienated. This, in turn, plays into the hands of antidemocratic groups who are using it for exclusionary politics. Questions are being raised about whether democracy delivers results for the people. This report responds to these challenges by demonstrating that democracy delivers development better than other regimes
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International democracy promotion across two waves: from support to protection

Democratization
Julia Leininger - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
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Pressure on civil society spaces

Lena Gutheil, Jasmin Lorch - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
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Institutionalising Backlash: Anti-Gender Frameworks as a Means to Justify Democratic Erosion in the United States

Sarah Austin - Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
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In Memory of Egypt’s Failed Revolution

Armirah El-Haddad - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
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There’s More to Oil Why Venezuela Demands a Deeper Analysis of US Imperialism

Daniel Chavez - Transnational Institute TNI
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Maduro’s Abduction and the Future Global Order

Aleksandar Matković - Transnational Institute TNI
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Venezuela after Maduro: a country in tense calm

Mariana Hernández-Montilla - Global Development Institute (GDI)
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Survival innovation in authoritarian systems: linking policy adaptation, technological strategy, and sustainability in the Middle East

Innovation and Development
Arash Beidollahkhani - Global Development Institute (GDI)
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Oligarchic sovereignty: Technology and the future of global order

Review of International Studies
Maha Rafi Atal, Jack Taggart, Seth Schindler et al. - Global Development Institute (GDI)
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Taliban governance and space for dialogue

Conflict, Security & Development
Arne Strand - Chr.Michelsen Institute (CMI)
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Safeguarding scientific integrity in fragile democracies

Jorge Huete-Perez - International Science Council ISC
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E-government tools, authoritarian propaganda, and regime support: experimental evidence from Turkey

Semuhi Sinanoglu, Armin von Schiller - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
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How democracy promoters respond to global autocratisation

Sonja Grimm, Brigitte Weiffen, Karina Mross - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
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A mixed record one year after the fall of the Assad regime

Tina Zintl - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
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The Slippery Slope of Authoritarianism - Using Human Rights to Anticipate and Prevent Conflict

Emma Bapt & Adam Day - The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID)
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Desinformación y autocracia

El Salvador de Nayib Bukele
Edgar Baltazar Landeros -
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African electoral coups should be treated as such, coups

Philippe Van Damme - European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM)
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Desinformación y autocracia. El Salvador de Nayib Bukele

Open access book
Edgar Baltazar Landeros - The Latin American Council of Social Sciences CLACSO
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Democracy promotion in times of autocratization: a conceptual note

Democratization
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13510347.2025.2543778 - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
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Ethiopia: A Personal Journey, 1983-2025 and Proposals for the Future Ireland-Africa Partnership

Tom Arnold - Development Studies Association Ireland DSAI
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Reimagining the International: Surveying Foreign Information Manipulation Landscapes of Power During the COVID-19 Pandemics

Ondřej Ditrych, Jakub Eberle, Linda Monsees et al. - Institute of International Relations (IIR)
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Performing control in Southeast Asia’s drug wars

Lena Diakite & Teresa Jopson - Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut (ABI)
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Turkey’s Narco-Authoritarian Turn: A Mafia Playground

Hakkı Taş - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
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Personnel management, institutional engineering, and coercion: mechanisms of the personalization of executive power

Democratization
Thomas Richter, Mariana Llanos, David Kuehn et al. - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
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Fifty years after Franco: Spain’s profound transformation, 1975-2025

William Chislett - Real Instituto Elcano
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‘Resentment is fuelling the rise of the right.’

Walden Bello & Teun Dominicus - Transnational Institute TNI
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Communicating strategic interests in humanitarian aid may help counter authoritarian propaganda and build trust in Europe

Semuhi Sinanoglu -
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Development cooperation at a tipping point: how, why and through what mechanisms do policy norms break?

Andy Sumner, Stephan Klingebiel - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
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Autocrats and their business allies: the informal politics of defection and co-optation

Government and Opposition
Semuhi Sinanoglu - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
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Strategic humanitarian aid, trust in Europe and support for authoritarianism

Semuhi Sinanoglu - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
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Solidarity with Venezuela’s Left Opposition: A Call for Principled Anti-Authoritarianism

Daniel Chavez - Transnational Institute TNI
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The Uganda Revenue Authority registration data

Maria Jouste & Sebastian Ssebuyira - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
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Everyday authoritarianism in Russia: new and old stigmatisation and insecurities in monotowns

Contemporary Politics
Kirsti Stuvøy - Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric)
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Global headwinds to Kuznets’ low-inequality transformation? Plutocrats, pluralism, and more

Nancy Birdsall - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
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The Fall of Assad in Syria Is Not the End of Captagon

GIGA Focus Middle East
André Bank & Johannes Haupt - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
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Authoritarian populism under former liberation movements in Southern Africa

Cadernos de Estudos Africanos
Henning Melber - Nordic Africa Institute (NAI)
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Resistencia juvenil, dictaduras y políticas de memoria

P. Godinho, M. Cardina, P. Pozzi (Coord) - The Latin American Council of Social Sciences CLACSO
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Feminismos en el nudo de ultraderechas y neoconservadurismos radicales

M. Valdivieso, A. Carosio (Coord) - The Latin American Council of Social Sciences CLACSO
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Agency during Armed Conflict: Everyday Life under Competing Authorities in Myanmar’s Rakhine State

Journal of Global Security Studies
Florian Weigand, Riyad Anwar, Tony Neil et al. - The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID)
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Dictators and Finance: The Argentine Military Regime’s Nationalization of the Italo Electric Company in 1978

Journal of Contemporary History
Sebastian Alvarez & Isabelle Lucas - The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID)
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Ethical Governance of AI and the Prevention of Digital Authoritarianism in South and Southeast Asia: Case Studies of India and Singapore

Sangeeta Mahapatra - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
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What teenage boys and foreign aid have in common: belonging, breakdown, and the rise of (authoritarian) populism

Nadia Molenaers - Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp (IOB)
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Science as early casualty in the authoritarian turn

Sven Grimm, Anna-Katharina Hornidge - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
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From Soft Sanctions to Engagement: The EU’s Evolving Responses to Thailand’s Democratic Openings

Janjira Sombatpoonsiri - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
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Development as domination: inequality and authoritarianism in India

L. Mehta, S. Muralidhara Hiriyur - Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
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Strategic responses to autocratization in international democracy promotion

Democratization
Julia Leininger, Karina Mross, Jonas Wolff - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
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From polarisation to autocratisation: the role of information pollution in Brazil's democratic erosion

Anita Breuer - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
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Do Autocracy and Fragility Connect?

Robin Luckham - Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
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Regulating female embodiment as disciplining citizens: the biopolitics of Islamic governance in Iran and Afghanistan

International Journal of Cultural Policy
Arash Beidollahkhani - Global Development Institute (GDI)
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Responses to Populism: Militant, Tolerant, and Social

Political Science & Politics
Anthoula Malkopoulou, Benjamin Moffitt -
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Legalised resistance to autocratisation in common law Africa

Third World Quarterly
Siri Gloppen, Lise Rakner - Chr.Michelsen Institute (CMI)
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Israel’s Spyware Law: A Step Towards Authoritarianism?

GIGA Focus Middle East
Elianne Shewring - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
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Introduction to special issue: exploring far-right utopias in practice

Manni Crone - Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)
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Beyond Ukraine and Gaza. Five consequences of overlooking other conflicts

Patricia Justino et al. - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
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Danish development cooperation experiences in contexts of autocratisation

Adam Moe Fejerskov, Trine Rosengren Pejstrup - Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)
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Staying engaged. Past experiences and future potentials for Danish development cooperation in challenging situations of autocratic governance

Adam Moe Fejerskov, Trine Rosengren Pejstrup - Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)
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Building Solidarities: Gender Justice in a Time of Backlash

Chung-Ah Baek, Deepta Chopra, Jerker Edström et al. - Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
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Refugees in the German elections’ discourse: Challenging the narrative: How policy choices empower the far-right

Musallam Abedtalas - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
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Trump’s victory shows that we need to remake the case for progressive policies

Peter Taylor - Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
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Working with Civil Society in Authoritarian Contexts? The Case of Niger

Lena Gutheil, Lisa Tschörner - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
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Challenges for Change in Myanmar

Transnational Institute TNI
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Non-State Actors and Autocratic Public Diplomacy: A Transregional View

Jens Heibach, Mira Demirdirek, Hamid Talebian - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
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Leveraging Crises: How the Russian Aggression in Ukraine Benefited the Populist Government in Hungary’s 2022 Election Campaigns

Czech Journal of International Relations
Pelin Ayan Musil, Anita Tusor - Institute of International Relations (IIR)
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Adverse Contagion? Populist Radical Right Parties and Norms on Gender Balance in Political Institutions

Politics and Governance
Josefina Erikson, Cecilia Josefsson -
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Syria Is Not Safe: A Look to Its Regions

GIGA Focus Middle East
André Bank - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
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Manipulating the Masses? Right-Wing Populist Messages, Political Ideology, and Public Support for Multilateral Development Aid in Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom

Journal of International Development
A. Burcu Bayram, Sebastian H. Schneider, Jörg Faust, Catarina Thomson - German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval)
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“Living With” Revolution: The Everyday Experiences of Myanmar’s Generation Z Revolutionaries

Journal of Contemporary Asia
Justine Chambers, Saw Ner Dhu Da - Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)
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Near miss: assessing the impact on the election of the Trump assassination attempt

Eric Sigmon - Real Instituto Elcano
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Illiberal Alliance: What Does Hungary Want in the Western Balkans?

Ivana Ranković -
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Protest Event Analysis: Grievances, Triggers, and Strategies in Authoritarian and Hybrid Regimes

Niranjan Jathavedan Nampoothiri - Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
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How incumbents create uneven patterns of competition during autocratization: the AKP case of Turkey

Pelin Ayan Musil - Institute of International Relations (IIR)
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Chad’s election outcome already seems set: 4 things Mahamat Déby has done to stay in power

Helga Dickow - Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut (ABI)
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State Capacity and Elite Enrichment in Uganda's Northeastern Periphery

Africa Spectrum
Karol Czuba - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
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'Radicalisation' and 'Countering radicalisation': The emergence and expansion of a contentious concept

In: The Routledge Handbook on Radicalisation and Countering Radicalisation
Rik Coolsaet -
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Repression by Legal Means: Governments’ Anti-Fake News Lawfare

GIGA Focus Global
Sangeeta Mahapatra, Janjira Sombatpoonsiri, Andreas Ufen - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
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The End of an Exception? The Rise of Far-Right Populism in Portugal

Filipe Calvão - The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID)
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Continuities and changes in electoral authoritarianism: evidence from Ethiopia

Regional & Federal Studies
Bizuneh Yimenu - International Development Department, University of Birmingham (IDD)
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Why it matters how we talk about the 'global' autocratisation trend

Licia Cianetti,Petra Alderman - International Development Department, University of Birmingham (IDD)
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The Global Gateway in the Southern Neighbourhood: the Dilemma of Investing in Authoritarian MENA Countries

Mark Furness - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
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Bukele’s State of Emergency in El Salvador

Viviana García Pinzón, José Salguero - Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut (ABI)
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Justifications of repression in autocracies: an empirical analysis of Morocco and Tunisia, 2000–2010

Contemporary Politics
Maria Josua - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
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Misinformation technology: Internet use and political misperceptions in Africa

Journal of Comparative Economics
Joël Cariolle, Yasmine Elkhateeb, Mathilde Maurel - Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International (CERDI)
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Ten Things to Watch in Africa in 2024

Martin Acheampong, Matthias Basedau, Julia Grauvogel - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
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The Rise of Digital Repression in Indonesia under Joko Widodo

Andreas Ufen - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
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Links Between the Balkan Far-Right and the War in Ukraine

Asya Metodieva, Michael Colborne - Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
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From Niger’s coup to the Sahel’s jihadist threat: A complex path ahead for the EU

Kawsar Laanani - European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM)
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What does the regime change in Niger mean for migration cooperation with the EU?

Amanda Bisong, Leonie Jegen, Harouna Mounkaila - European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM)
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Tunisia’s Autocratisation under President Kais Saied

Kressen Thyen, Maria Josua - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
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Beyond the Soft–Hard Power Binary: Resource Control in Turkey’s Foreign Policy Towards Sub-Saharan Africa

Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies
Jens Heibach, Hakkı Taş - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
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The Authoritarian Roots of India's Democracy

Journal of Democracy
Tripurdaman Singh - The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID)
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Statebuilding beyond the West: Exploring Islamic State’s strategic narrative of governance and statebuilding

European Journal of International Security
Raquel da Silva, Matthew Bamber-Zryd, Nicolas Lemay-Hébert - The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID)
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The risk of authoritarian renewal in Zimbabwe: Understanding ZANU-PF youth

Marjoke Oosterom, Simbarashe Gukurume - Chr.Michelsen Institute (CMI)
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Contagious politics and COVID-19: does the infectious disease hit populist supporters harder?

Contemporary Policits
Aline Burni, Daniel Stockemer, Christine Hackenesch - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
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International democracy promotion in times of autocratization: from supporting to protecting democracy

Julia Leininger - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
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Cyclical jihadist governance: the Islamic State governance cycle in Iraq and Syria

Small Wars & Insurgencies
Matthew Bamber-Zryd -
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A Painful Dialogue with the Taliban

Arne Strand - Chr.Michelsen Institute (CMI)
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Income inequality in authoritarian regimes: the role of political institutions and state capacity. The role of political institutions and state capacity

Italian Political Science Review
Angelo Vito Panaro, Andrea Vaccaro - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
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