Regime Insecurity and Subnational Governance from Empire to Republic

• In Event: Political Dynamics of Authoritarianism

Brief Overview

We argue that rulers engage in more bureaucratic shuffling when their rule is more uncertain. We test the argument with an original dataset of Ottoman and Turkish provincial governors between 1876-2019.

Authors

• Gunes Murat Tezcur, University of Central Florida

• Yusuf Magiya, Columbia University

• Bogdan Gabriel Popescu, Bocconi University