28. Transitions to Democracy

Christopher Heurlin, Bowdoin College

Capacity or Coercion? How Predation Reverses the State’s Effect on Democracy - David Ibanez, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Confiscation and State-Building in Post-Revolutionary States - Mohammad Sayyadi, Florida International University

Coups, Authority, and the Pursuit of Legitimacy - Gilad Wenig, University of California, Los Angeles

Every Breath You Take: Digital Surveillance and Elite Conflict in Autocracies - Sam Handlin, Swarthmore College

Mafia Murders, Land Inequality, and Failed Democratization: Historical Evidence from Sicily - Guido Panzano, Christian-Albrecht University, Kiel

Christopher Heurlin, Bowdoin College

Benn Lemnyoi Bongang, Savannah State University