Authoritarian Political Systems Group

2° Mini-Conference on Authoritarian Politics

3 July 2024, Cologne

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9.30 – 10.30 Session 1

Personalization of Power

  1. “Paths to Personalization: How Dictators Accumulate Power Over Time” by Joan C. Timoneda, Abel Escribà-Folch, and Kyle Haynes
  2. “Personalization of Power under International Sanctions” by Alina Sokolenko

Propaganda

  1. “How does Autocratic Propaganda Affect a Successor’s Image? Evidence from Uganda” by Edward Goldring and Rebecca Tapscott
  2. “Hostile enemies: Measuring China’s delegitimizing propaganda towards foreign journalists” by Linette Lim

11.00 – 12.00 Session 2

Elites

  1. “The Illusion of Constraint? Elections and Elite Turnover in Authoritarian Regimes” by Jonas Willibald Schmid
  2. “A Tale of Two Elites: Economic and Political Authoritarian Elites After Democratization” by Javier Padilla

Representation and Responsiveness

  1. “Coopting the Cowed. Closing and Re-Opening Legislatures in Authoritarian Regimes” by Ben Noble, Paul Schuler and Jun Sudduth.
  2. “Fiscal Policymaking in Autocracies” by Alejandro Bonvecchi and Emilia Simison

12.00 – 14.00 Lunch Break

14.00 – 15.00 Session 3

Purges and Repression

  1. “Rubber Stamp Repression” by Katerina Tertytchnaya and Emily Ritter.
  2. “Verification Procedures and Trust towards Police” by Barbara Piotrowska

Experiments

  1. “The Presistent Effect of State-Based Political Violence on Support for Fascism” by Fabio Agiolillo.
  2. “Propaganda Goes Private: How Autocrats Use Commercial Media to Persuade Skeptics” by Bardia Rahmani

15.30 – 16.30 Session 4

Democracy and Democratization

  1. “Military-led Transitions, Credible Commitments, and Democracy” by Darin Self
  2. “People Hold Consistent Understandings of Democracy Across and Within Six Very Different Countries” by Scott Williamson

Legitimacy

  1. “Legitimacy Erosion and State Capacity: Explaining Political (De)Centralization in Dictatorships” by Eleonora Minaeva
  2. “Rallying ’round the school house: The politicization of education in times of war” by Anja Neundorf, Ksenia Northmore-Ball, Wooseok Kim, Eugenia Nazrullaeva and Katerina Tertytchnaya

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