The power of ‘big brothers’: political leaders and regime changes in authoritarian states
International Political Science Review
Published online on April 30, 2026
Abstract
International Political Science Review, Ahead of Print.
Various perspectives have been proposed to explain regime change under authoritarianism, yet the role of autocrats— ‘the elephant in the room’— remains largely unexamined in large-Nstudies. This study addresses this gap by employing the Randomization ...
Various perspectives have been proposed to explain regime change under authoritarianism, yet the role of autocrats— ‘the elephant in the room’— remains largely unexamined in large-Nstudies. This study addresses this gap by employing the Randomization ...