business elite have openly engaged in contentious politics, injecting money and other resources into the opposition (albeit …

repertoire, and the strength of elite commitment. It argues that For China, the biggest challenge is the increasingly incoherent … continuing economic liberalization and globalization. Nevertheless, relatively strong elite commitment allows the regime to … repertoire that tries to blend statism, Russian ethnocentrism and market liberalism is further compounded by rather weak elite …

one of the world's most striking returns to authoritarianism. Building on the collective findings of scholars of Russian …

Brownlee, and Beatriz Magaloni -- is an ineffective source of elite cohesion. Patronage may preserve elite unity during normal … times, but it is often insufficient to ensure elite cooperation during crises. The most durable party-based regimes are …

authoritarianism' in Georgia.I document the ways in which 'the West' has aided successive Georgian competitive authoritarian regimes …

behaviour under authoritarianism is similar to the same process in consolidated democracy. However, the lack of a clear policy …

a new round of competitive authoritarianism. Where state and ruling parties were of medium strength, mineral resources …