Other Publications:

"Autocratization and Democratic Backsliding," (with Alejandra López Villegas), Research Handbook on Authoritarianism, Edward Elgar Publishing (edited by Natasha Lindstaedt and Jeoren J.J. den Bosch), 2024 

"Authoritarian Survival," Research Handbook on Authoritarianism, Edward Elgar Publishing (edited by Natasha Lindstaedt and Jeoren J.J. den Bosch), 2024

"The Treacherous Path to a Better Russia," Foreign Affairs, 2023, July/August (with Andrea Kendall-Taylor)

"After Putin: Lessons from Autocratic Leadership Transitions," The Washington Quarterly, 2022, Vol. 45, No. 1 (with Andrea Kendall-Taylor)

"Digitized Autocracy Literature Review: Final Report," DRG Center Working Paper, USAID, 2021 (with Andrea Kendall-Taylor)

"Contemporary Challenges to Global Democracy," Brown Journal of World Affairs, 2021, Vol. 26, No. 2

"Autocracy," Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, April 2016 (updated in 2021)

"Personalism in Democracies: A New Index," Luminate Foundation Working Paper, 2021, May (with Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Joseph Wright)

"The Digital Dictators: How Technology Strengthens Autocracy," Foreign Affairs, 2020, March/April (with Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Joseph Wright)

   * Featured on Foreign Affairs' "The Best of 2020"

"Digital Repression in Autocracies," V-Dem Users Working Paper, The Varieties of Democracy Institute, 2020, No. 27, (with Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Joseph Wright)

"Authoritarian Politics: Trends and Debates," Politics and Governance, 2018, Vol. 6, No. 2

"The Evolution of Autocracy: Why Authoritarianism Is Becoming More Formidable,"  Survival, 2017, Vol. 59, No. 5 (with Andrea Kendall-Taylor)

* Featured on Survival's "Editors' picks: Ten of the best Survival articles from 2017"

"Theories of Democratic Change Phase II: Paths Away from Authoritarianism," USAID Research and Innovation Grants Working Paper Series, DRG Center Working Paper, 2017 (with Jeffrey Conroy-Krutz)

"The Global Rise of Personalized Politics: It's Not Just Dictators Anymore," The Washington Quarterly, 2017, Vol. 40, No. 1 (with Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Joseph Wright)

"Mimicking Democracy to Prolong Autocracies," The Washington Quarterly, 2014, Vol. 37, No. 4 (with Andrea Kendall-Taylor)

"How Autocracies Fall," The Washington Quarterly, 2014, Vol. 37, No. 1 (with Andrea Kendall-Taylor)

"Autocratic Fate: How Leaders' Post-Tenure Expectations Influence the Behavior of Dictatorships," Whitehead Journal of International Diplomacy, 2014, Vol. 15, No. 1 (with Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Natasha Ezrow)

"Trends in Democratization: Leadership Transitions and Systemic Change," Peace and Conflict 2014, University of Maryland, CIDCM (edited by David Backer, Paul Huth, and Jonathan Wilkenfeld), 2014

"Comparative Leadership in Non-Democracies," Comparative Political Leadership, Palgrave MacMillan Publishers (edited by Ludger Helms), 2012 (with Elizabeth A. Stein)

"Trends in Democratization: Unpacking Anocracies," Peace and Conflict 2012, University of Maryland, CIDCM (edited by. J. Joseph Hewitt, Jonathan Wilkenfeld, Ted Robert Gurr, and Birger Held), 2012

"State Institutions and the Survival of Dictatorships," Journal of International Affairs, 2011, Vol. 46, No. 1 (with Natasha Ezrow)