Tinpots and Technocrats: Market Reforms and the Politics of Personal Rule

• In Event: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Survival and Collapse

Brief Overview

A case study of the democratization of Indonesia and a global dataset of autocracies finds that personalist hybrid regimes are more vulnerable to collapse during economic crises rather than political crises and more vulnerable to collapse overall.

Authors

• Ben Smith, University of Florida

• Yunizar Adiputera, University of Florida