Abandoned Footnotes

In my corner of Twitter, I recently became obliquely aware of a kerfuffle about Michael Bloomberg saying that “Xi Jinping is not a dictator”...

A rather long post  on reading the Korean Central News Agency's headlines I am not putting directly on this blog because it contains in...

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

(Apologies for the lack of posting - I've been finishing some big projects. This is of interest primarily to people who care about quant...

(I normally don’t write on current events, since I’m not a specialist in the politics of any country, but I had just finished  Michael Herb...

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

Mao Zedong to Ho Chi Minh, June 1966: I advise you, not all of your subjects are loyal to you. Perhaps most of them are loyal but maybe a ...

(Part 1.5 of a series on the history ofpolitical regimes . This gets a bit technical in the second half, which contains a sort of blurry s...