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• Commentary
  • POLITICO
  • January 12, 2025
  Republicans Saved Democracy Once. Will They Do It Again?

  Despite different political and historical contexts, the playbook these personalist leaders use to dismantle democracy has been identical....

  By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Joseph Wright & Erica Frantz

• Podcast
  • September 20, 2024
  The Origins of Elected Strongmen: How Personalist Parties Destroy Democracy from Within

  This week, CNAS hosted the book launch for The Origins of Elected Strongmen: How Personalist Parties Destroy Democracy from Within, a new book by Dr. Joseph Wright, Dr. Erica ...

  By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Erica Frantz, Joseph Wright & Susan B. Glasser

• • Book
  • August 26, 2024
  The Origins of Elected Strongmen

  Since the end of World War II, democracies typically fell apart by coup d'état or through force. Today, however, they are increasingly eroding at the hands of democratically e...

  By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Erica Frantz & Joseph Wright

• Commentary
  • The Conversation
  • January 30, 2024
  Why Trump’s control of the Republican Party is bad for democracy

  As former President Donald Trump edges closer to clinching the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, our political science research has shown that a second Trump preside...

  By Erica Frantz, Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Joseph Wright

• Commentary
  • The Washington Post
  • October 4, 2022
  In El Salvador and Elsewhere, Leaders Find Ways to Break Term Limits

  Limits to executive time in office help ensure regular, institutionalized rotation of leadership....

  By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Erica Frantz & Joseph Wright

• Commentary
  • Journal of Democracy
  • July 15, 2021
  How Personalist Politics is Changing Democracies

  This rapid increase is alarming: Personalist rule brings with it a host of negative outcomes compared to other types of authoritarian systems....

  By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Carisa Nietsche, Erica Frantz & Joseph Wright

• Commentary
  • Foreign Policy
  • March 9, 2021
  All Politics Is Personalized

  Leaders are amassing more power relative to their political parties so politics more strongly reflects the leader’s preferences rather than being a bargaining process among mu...

  By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Erica Frantz & Joseph Wright

• Commentary
  • V-Dem Institute
  • March 1, 2020
  Digital Repression in Autocracies

  Repression is a hallmark feature of authoritarian rule. It raises the costs of disloyalty and makes it more difficult for groups to mobilize against the regime (Wintrobe, 1998...

  By Erica Frantz, Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Joseph Wright

• Commentary
  • Foreign Affairs
  • February 6, 2020
  The Digital Dictators

  Rapid technological change will likely produce a cat-and-mouse dynamic as citizens and governments race to gain the upper hand....

  By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Erica Frantz & Joseph Wright

• Commentary
  • The Washington Post
  • June 5, 2019
  Why the fragmentation of European politics could bode poorly for democracy

  After last week’s elections, the European Parliament is more fragmented than ever — growing discontent with the mainstream meant that centrist and mainstream parties took a be...

  By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Erica Frantz & Joseph Wright