With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: Personalization and the Attribution of Responsibility in Autocracies

• In Event: Authoritarian Repression and Resistance

Brief Overview

This paper contends that as power becomes more personalized, so does responsibility. As autocrats amass greater power and dominate policymaking, citizens increasingly hold them accountable for economic and social dissatisfaction.

Author

• Shuyuan Shen, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign