What role does propaganda play in the information politics of authoritarian societies, and
what is its relationship to censorship? What have we learned from rival accounts in recent …

The way in which Chinese diplomats communicate has changed recently, from being mostly
reactive and pragmatic to being rhetorically more combative. This has generated strong …

The 2022 invasion of Ukraine tests the resilience of the authoritarian regime in Russia. Most
of the elites showed their commitment to the autocrat by publicly supporting the “special …

This article explains the political significance of the Union of Youth Federations of
Cambodia, the quasi-youth wing of the ruling Cambodian People's Party in Cambodia. I …

We argue that authoritarian regimes engage in subnational propaganda targeting in pursuit
of political survival. Drawing on an original dataset of propaganda collected inside North …

In the face of current democratic backsliding and autocratization processes, research has
rediscovered issues of autocratic legitimation. However, the question of whether rulers' …

North Korea (or DPRK, standing for Democratic People's Republic of Korea) is one of the
longest-lasting authoritarian regimes in the contemporary world. Having already outlived the …

This article offers a comparative analysis of post-Soviet leaders' new year addresses to the
nation. As highly prominent, programmatic speeches, such texts provide a unique and …

Informed by the puzzle of differentiating between democratic and authoritarian legitimacy-
generating actions, the chapter aims to propose and test a theoretical tool for measuring …

As relations between the United States and China have grown tenser, how has the Chinese
Communist Party's (CCP) portrayal of the United States changed? And what might portrayals …