Measuring Authoritarian Stability: Latent Dimensions for Comparative Politics

• In Event: Institutions and Authoritarian Regimes

Brief Overview

This project develops a latent measure of authoritarian regime stability, capturing resilience to displacement across elite, mass, external, and administrative dimensions, offering a conceptually valid and empirically comparable series for 1946–2024.

Author

• Jalal Fetrati, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor