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Reading List:

• Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, pages 1-100
• Charles Tilly, “War making and state making as organized crime” in Bringing the State Back In, editors Dietrich Rueschmeyer, Peter Evans and Theda Skocpol, Cambridge University Press, 1985.
• Milan Svolik, The Politics of Authoritarian Rule, Cambridge University Press, 2012. Chapters 1-6
• Raymond Fisman and Edward Miguel, Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence and the Poverty of Nations, Princeton University Press, 2008. selections
• Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty, 2013. selections
• Jon Elster, “Accountability in Athenian Politics” in Democracy, Accountability, and Representation, editors Adam Przeworski, Susan C. Stokes, Bernard Manin, Cambridge University Press, 2012.
• Susan Hyde, “The Observer Effect in International Politics” in World Politics, 2007. 60:37-63
• Jennifer Gandhi, Ben Noble, Milan Svolik, “Legislatures and Legislative Politics without Democracy” in Comparative Political Studies, 2020. 53: 1359-1379.
• Erica De Bruin and Zachary Karabatak, “The Journal of the Middle East and Africa” in Comparative Political Studies, 2022. 13: 93-110.
• Nikolay Marinov, Maria Popova, “Will the real conspiracy please stand up: Sources of post-communist democratic failure” in Perspectives on Politics, 2021. 20: 222-236.
• Inga K. Trauthig, Zelly C. Martin, and Samuel C. Woolley “Messaging Apps: A Rising Tool for Informational Autocrats” in Political Research Quarterly, 2023. 77: 17-29.