NEW BOOK: Autocrats Can't Always Get What They Want
But if they try sometimes...
Our new book, Autocrats Can't Always Get What They Want State Institutions and Autonomy under Authoritarianism, has now been officially published by University of Michigan Press.
This book has it all: picking (some) fights with the academic literature, theorizing about how non-democracy works, detailed case studies on countries in Europe, Eurasia, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia, and just chock full of extended musings on dictatorship and democracy.
Please tell your friends, your colleagues, your enemies, and your favorite authoritarians.
If you are a university library, there is a hardcover option for $85 bucks. If you are a normal person, you can pick up the softcover for $35 (discount code below for 30% off). If you are a student, too stretched to pay for a print version, or just want to preview it, the press offers a FREE (!) ebook version as well that you can access through their website.
If you would like to see a little Twitter thread I made on how the book came to be, you can find that here. For a blog-length article from us exploring some of the ideas in the book, you can find that here.
If you want to review the book for your blog, social media, or publication - please do so! If you run a podcast, I am more than happy to chat. At some point, I will write up a simple summary of the whole thing, but first you should buy it.
You can find the special discount for the paperback (‘UMF24’) here on this flyer:
The publisher website for the discount is here. You can also find it on Amazon and elsewhere, and shipping internationally should be available.
- Julian