Digital Dictatorship in the 21st Century: The Transformation of Politics and Polities

• In Event: International Digital Topics

Brief Overview

This paper first maps how autocrats utilize digital tools to maintain power. It demonstrates how this transforms autocratic political processes and concludes that these changes fundamentally alter the form of political organization in dictatorships.

Authors

• Mirjam Edel, University of Tuebingen

• Ahmed Maati, University of Tuebingen

• Koray Saglam, University of Tuebingen

• Oliver Schlumberger, University of Tuebingen