Entry Crisis and Personalized Power in Party-based Regimes

• In Event: Political Institutions in Autocracies

Brief Overview

This paper explores why dictators in institutionalized autocracies disrupt power-sharing to consolidate personal power. It highlights entry crises, such as coups, as key drivers of this shift, supported by data on 1,460 leaders from 1945 to 2010.

Author

• Liang Li, University of Houston