Abandoned Footnotes

(A footnote on Crabtree, Kern, and Siegel, “ Cults of Personality, Preference Falsification, and the Dictator’s Dilemma ”, Journal of Theore...

(Reflections on the nature of charisma and charismatic authority. Applications to current events and people are left as an exercise for the ...

No, not that post . Just me talking about the uses of lies in politics , which may interest some readers here. Posts at the Monkey Cage a...

My new book, Non-Democratic Politics: Authoritarianism, Dictatorship, and Democratization has been out for a few weeks ( Palgrave , Amazon ...

I've been recently re-reading Juan Linz 's Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes , a book I didn't appreciate enough when I fi...

(Warning: speculation about Spanish history during the Franco era by an amateur). I’m currently in Spain, doing some research on Fran...