Ethnic Repression and the Survival of Authoritarianism in Deeply Divided Societies

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Brief Overview

This paper will investigate the conditions under which authoritarian regimes develop and employ highly repressive forms of ethnic exclusion in deeply divided societies and how it is relevant to the autocrats' survival in power.

Author

• Mst Tahmina Akter, University of Connecticut