Comparative Politics

Danielle Anne Zach, The City College of New York

Instability as Strategy: Examining the Role of Perpetuated Uncertainty in the Durability of Authoritarian Regimes - Amir Mahdavi, University of Connecticut

Still My Vassal: Recentralized Authoritarianism, “Reducible” Bureaucracy, and Cadre Selection in China - Shiyi Chen, Sun Yat-sen University; Ze Cai, New York University

The Guardians of the Party: Embedded Military Structures and Diverging Regime Outcomes in China and the Soviet Union - Vu Luong, University of Florida

The Omnipresent Sultan: Spying and Surveillance in the Late Ottoman Empire - Firat Kimya, Swarthmore College

Theorizing Ethno-autocracy: Comparative Analysis of Ethnic Repression and Survival of Authoritarianism in Deeply Divided Societies - Mst Tahmina Tahmina Akter, University of Connecticut

Yunus Sozen, Le Moyne College