which repression and bad decision-making are self-reinforcing. Repressions reduce the threat, yet raise the stakes for the …

The emerging literature dealing with transnational repression has identified several strategies used by authoritarian … determinants of transnational repression. It argues that an increase in domestic repression is likely to lead to a subsequent … increase in transnational repression because crackdowns at home drive dissent abroad and incentivize the state to extend its …

In this paper, we unveil targeted repression against journalists as an elaborate strategy used by modern autocrats to … mitigate the risk of mass protests during autocratic elections-a common threat to their rule. Repression is deployed to … creates distinct electoral cycles of media repression in autocracies. Our empirical study establishes these cycles using a …

In this paper, we unveil targeted repression against journalists as an elaborate strategy used by modern autocrats to … mitigate the risk of mass protests during autocratic elections—a common threat to their rule. Repression is deployed to … creates distinct electoral cycles of media repression in autocracies. Our empirical study establishes these cycles using a …

In this paper, we unveil targeted repression against journalists as an elaborate strategy used by modern autocrats to … mitigate the risk of mass protests during autocratic elections—a common threat to their rule. Repression is deployed to … creates distinct electoral cycles of media repression in autocracies. Our empirical study establishes these cycles using a …

In this paper, we unveil targeted repression against journalists as an elaborate strategy used by modern autocrats to … mitigate the risk of mass protests during autocratic elections-a common threat to their rule. Repression is deployed to … creates distinct electoral cycles of media repression in autocracies. Our empirical study establishes these cycles using a …