Purges or reshuffles? Elite management strategies in autocracies

• In Event: Maintaining Authoritarian Power: Repression, Resilience, and Reshuffles

Brief Overview

This paper distinguishes between horizontal (reshuffles) and vertical (purges) autocratic elite management strategies. We propose and find that the former are less costly for the survival of dictators.

Authors

• Alexander Baturo, Dublin City University

• Roman-Gabriel Olar, Dublin City University