Anne Wolf

Cover of "Perspectives on Politics" journal featuring a person viewing an Amnesty International street installation displaying the quote, "First they came for the journalists and I did not speak out, because they said it was all fake news," set against a cityscape background.

Free for a limited period from the latest issue of @poppublicsphere.bsky.social -

Inequality, Redistribution, and the Global Surge in Populism - https://cup.org/4nHRbsK

- @annemwolf.bsky.social, Kathrin Bachleitner & Sarah Bufkin

#populism

"The very fact that many do not use the term “propaganda” but rather “misinformation” or “fake news” to delineate the deliberate spread of falsehoods by Trump and his like is significant....It highlights that scholars use different paradigms to study democracies and autocracies."

Our new Perspectives on Politics book review editorial👇👇

Rumors, Propaganda, and Conspiracies: New Insights on the Ideological Dimensions of Democratic Backsliding and Autocratization

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Authoritarian Regimes in the Global Economy AbstractScholars have argued that a more open international economy would encourage authoritarian regimes to liberalize politically to build better relatio

Authoritarian Regimes in the Global Economy

by @jheathershaw.bsky.social Anne Pitcher & Ricardo Soares de Oliveria

in @annemwolf.bsky.social (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Authoritarian Politics (2024)

#WinterReading

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More vital research from the IR cluster at Exeter.

This book demands a wide readership.

This should be required reading for all of us right now.

The Oxford Handbook of Authoritarian Politics Abstract. This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot ad

Excited to be part of this forthcoming handbook edited by Anne Wolf and with superb chapter authors. My chapter "Authoritarian Regimes in the Global Economy" with Anne Pitcher and Ricardo Soares de Oliveira has just been published. DM me for a pre-print.
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The Oxford Authoritarian Politics Network is looking for submissions for a workshop in April. Please submit if you're interested in what we can learn by bringing scholarship on democracies and autocracies into more direct conversation. Contact me, @annemwolf.bsky.social, or Katerina with questions!

The King Can Do No Wrong Cambridge Core - Middle East Government,Politics and Policy - The King Can Do No Wrong

My book is out! I’m grateful for the many people in Jordan, Tunisia, Stanford, and elsewhere who helped it reach this point.

If you’re interested in why some autocrats stay popular or why ruling monarchs are so durable in today’s world, this book is for you!

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The Oxford Authoritarian Politics Network is organising a new conference 👇👇
ENGAGING DEMOCRATIC AND AUTHORITARIAN POLITICS SCHOLARSHIP IN CONVERSATION
Please spread the word and circulate our call for papers widely!

PUBLISHED! Hey dictatorsky, my chapter on "The Lost Works of Nondemocratic Rule" has been published in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Authoritarian Politics, edited by
@annemwolf.bsky.social 🤓 Abstract and free access below -

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Definitely adding this to my syllabus. It has a great lit review of explanations for the Arab Uprisings, detailed empirics from Tunisia, and is a great basis for a class discussion of path dependence as a methodology.

How Erroneous Beliefs Trigger Authoritarian Collapse: The Case of Tunisia, January 14, 2011 - Anne Wolf, 2024 Why was the longtime Tunisian ruler Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali ousted on January 14, 2011? Prevailing theories focus on popular mobilization, grievances, and the r...

Why did the Ben Ali regime collapse so swiftly on January 14, 2011? In my new article, I argue that the fall of the Tunisian regime–the first one to collapse during the Arab Uprising–was just one of several possible outcomes of the turmoil @cpsjournal.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...