Analyses of the shape and functioning of systems of political rule need to address informal institutions, which exist alongside and can relate to formal institutions in various ways. In this paper, I first discuss some analytical foundations of the study of such institutions. I then suggest that...

State capitalist analysis-before the Russian revolution, in reaction to Stalin's consolidation of power, and after the Cold War / Vincent Kelly Pollard -- State capitalism versus communism : what happened in the USSR? / Satya Gabriel, Stephen A. Resnick, and Richard D. Wolff -- Labor,...

In the debate on authoritarian resilience, the importance of persuasion to regime legitimacy has been widely acknowledged, yet a conceptual framework explaining the role of persuasion is still lacking. Against this backdrop, we argue that the framing perspective (Benford and Snow 2000) provides...