How do autocrats stay in power?
Our new research dives into the strategies of political control—repression, co-optation, and indoctrination—used across 229 autocracies from 1946 to 2010. What we found will change the way you think about authoritarian resilience. 🧵👇
Our new research dives into the strategies of political control—repression, co-optation, and indoctrination—used across 229 autocracies from 1946 to 2010. What we found will change the way you think about authoritarian resilience. 🧵👇
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-Strong leadership✅
-Popular support✅
-Clear plan or ideology✅
-Install agents in key roles✅
-Mobilization of resources✅
-Control media✅
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https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/joseph-goebbels-1
All day, every day. They are addicted to him.
"Mainstream media made me do it."
For maybe ... prevent it from even happening !!!
Soooo many things, media, court decisions, nominations etc shouldn't have been allowed to happen. Cos we knew
It's as if some have an interest in this happening 🤔
What we need to know is: how do we pull ourselves out of this mess without civil war?? Something clearcut and proven....
Control key govt. Office.
surprising"
Paraphrasing ungenerously here - We had such a broad range of unrelated samples that we were unable to produce any meaningful conclusion
The constitution does not allow for this consolidation of power, and its failings & inequities were immediate.
That's the fertile ground.