March 15, 2021

Forum Podcast: “How Dictators (ab)use Democratic Institutions” – with Anne Meng

 

Guest: Anne Meng – Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia.

 

In this episode, Anne Meng – Assistant Prof. of Political Science at University of Virginia and Forum host Nicolas Wittstock discuss how dictators use seemingly inclusive political institutions to cement their power.

 

Related work and links mentioned in the podcast:

Anne Meng – Constraining Dictatorship. From Personalized Rule to Institutionalized Regimes

Albertus and Menaldo – Authoritarianism and the Elite Origins of Democracy

Anne Meng – Winning the Game of Thrones: Leadership Succession in Modern Autocracies.​ 2020. Journal of Conflict Resolution.

Mila Versteeg, Tim Horley, Anne Meng, Mauricio Gium, and Marilyn Guirguis – The Law and Politics of Presidential Term Limit Evasion. 2020. Columbia Law Review​ 120(1): 1-77.

Leonardi Arriola and Jed DeVaro and Anne Meng – Democratic Subversion: Elite Cooptation and Opposition Fragmentation. (Working Paper ).

Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson – The Narrow Corridor

 

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