Hitler, Stalin, and Mao ruled through violence, fear, and ideology. But in recent decades a new breed of media-savvy strongmen has been redesigning authoritarian rule for a more sophisticated, globally connected world. In place of overt, mass repression, rulers such as Vladimir Putin, Recep Tayyip E...

Globalization, Government Popularity, and the Great Skill Divide

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Cevat G Aksoy et al.

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We provide the first large-scale, global evidence on the impact of the skill composition of trade on political approval. We show that political implications of trade shocks depend on the relationship between workers' skills and the characteristics of goods traded. Using Gallup World Poll surveys of...

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Sergei Guriev et al.

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How do citizens in authoritarian states feel about their leaders? While some dictators rule through terror, others seem genuinely popular. Using the Gallup World Poll’s panel of more than one hundred-forty countries in 2006–2016, the authors show that the drivers of political approval differ across...

A Theory of Informational Autocracy

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Sergei Guriev et al. (30 juin 2020)

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We develop an informational theory of autocracy. Dictators survive not by means of force or ideology but because they convince the public—rightly or wrongly—that they are competent. Citizens do not observe the leader's type but infer it from signals in their living standards, state propaganda, and m...

Informational Autocrats

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Sergei Guriev et al. (1 nov. 2019)

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In recent decades, dictatorships based on mass repression have largely given way to a new model based on the manipulation of information. Instead of terrorizing citizens into submission, “informational autocrats” artificially boost their popularity by convincing the public they are competent. To do...

How Modern Dictators Survive: Cooptation, Censorship, Propaganda, and Repression

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Sergei Guriev et al.

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We develop an informational theory of dictatorship. Dictators survive not because of their use of force or ideology but because they convince the public--rightly or wrongly--that they are competent. Citizens do not observe the dictator's type but infer it from signals inherent in their living standa...

Richard Sakwa: La Segunda Guerra Fría

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Anaclet Pons (15 janv. 2024)

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Retomamos el conflicto ucraniano, con sus precedentes y consecuencias. En esa materia, mucho se ha escrito, sobre todo culpabilizando a la Rusia de Putin de lo que viene ocurriendo y analizando ese tipo de democracia autoritaria que representa: la de Los nuevos dictadores que han estudiado Sergei Gu...

Compte rendu de lecture. Spin dictators : le nouveau visage de la tyrannie au XXI ème siècle

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François Facchini (1 déc. 2023)

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La montée des populismes et la fragilisation des démocraties inquiètent de nombreux observateurs de la vie politique. Sergei Guriev et Daniel Treisman proposent dans leur livre une analyse des stratégies utilisées par les nouveaux dictateurs pour renforcer leurs pouvoirs et se maintenir à la tête de...

Bernard Bruneteau, François Hourmand (dir.), Le vestiaire des totalitarismes | Sergei Guriev et Daniel Treisman, Spin Dictators. The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century

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Marc Lazar (22 sept. 2022)

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Voilà deux ouvrages associant des chercheurs de disciplines différentes, un historien, Bernard Bruneteau, et un politiste, François Hourmand pour le premier, un économiste, Sergei Guriev, et un professeur de science politique, Daniel Treisman, pour le second. Tous deux cherchent à comprendre le phén...

Sergei Guriev y Daniel Treisman: Nuevos dictadores. La tiranía en el siglo XXI

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Anaclet Pons (17 mai 2022)

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Los profesores Sergei Guriev y Daniel Treisman llevan algunos años, al menos desde 2015, hurgando en el cambiante rostro de la tiranía en nuestro actual siglo. Y ahora nos ofrecen la conclusión a la que han llegado: Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century (Princeton UP). E...

Spin dictators: The changing face of tyranny in the 21ST century, Sergei Guriev et Daniel Treisman, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2022, 360 pages

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David Colon (2022)

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Rethinking Russia : Is Russia Cursed by Oil?

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Danièle Revel (15 avr. 2011)

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Rethinking Russia : Is Russia Cursed by Oil? / Daniel Treisman, Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 63, No. 2, Spring/Summer 2010, pp. 85-10. http://jia.sipa.columbia.edu/russia-cursed-oil Russia is often presented as a classic example of the so-called “Resource Curse”-the argument that natural...