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Old Dogs, New Tricks: Authoritarian Regime Persistence Through Learning, Nicholas Ryan Davis
Old Dogs, New Tricks: Authoritarian Regime Persistence Through Learning, Nicholas Ryan Davis
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How does diffusion lead to authoritarian regime persistence? Political decisions, regardless of what the actors involved might believe or espouse, do not happen in isolation. Policy changes, institutional alterations, regime transitions-- these political phenomena are all in some part a product of diffusion processes as much as they are derived from internal determinants. As such, political regimes do not exist in a vacuum, nor do they ignore the outside world. When making decisions about policy and practice, we should expect competent political actors to take a look at the wider external world. This dissertation project presents a theory of regime …