The persistence of autocratic regimes in the context of modern societies
creates significant challenges for social science theory and empirical
research. The panelists will address these challenges…
Existing research suggests that external interventions may reduce the aggregate levels of
repression in authoritarian regimes by pressuring recalcitrant national governments to comply
with…
Scholarship on totalitarian regimes moved away from the victimology model. Subjects of
national socialist and communist dictatorships seem to have acted in dialogue with the powerful
state. Many…