The Evolution of Authoritarian Governance: Strategies, Ideology, and Institutions

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

As we navigate the complexities of contemporary authoritarian governance and institutions, this panel brings together diverse perspectives to shed light on key aspects shaping authoritarian political landscapes and changes within authoritarian governance. Topics will span the deployment of surveillance technologies targeting regime insiders, the impact of ideological stances on autocratic stability, the role of pre-independence elites in decolonizing autocracies, to the transformative effects of digital media on authoritarian political parties. Collectively, by embracing varied theoretical paradigms and diverse methodologies, the papers on this panel will initiate a vibrant dialogue on how processes of governance in authoritarian contests redefine state-society relations.

Sub Unit

• Division 57: Middle East and North African Politics

Individual Presentations

• Pre-independence Elites and Post-colonial Selectorates: Evidence from the MENA - Allison Spencer Hartnett, University of Southern California

• Concentric Circles of Control: When Governments Expand Surveillance from Insiders - Katharin Tai, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Autocratization in an Age of Digitalization - Huseyin Emre Ceyhun, Princeton University

• Ideology and Authoritarian Survival - Ora John Reuter, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

• Election of Raisi as a Turning Point in Islamic Republic Typology - Amir H. Mahdavi, University of Connecticut

Discussant

• Egor Lazarev Yale