Dictators and Dictatorships: Understanding Authoritarian Regimes and Their Leaders

"Dictators and Dictatorships provides an overview of authoritarian regimes in the contemporary era. Ezrow and Frantz adopt the extremely useful typology of authoritarian regimes developed by Barbara Geddes to provide a comprehensive treatment of politics in single-party, military, and personalist authoritarian regimes. This book ranges widely to explain the origins and breakdown of these regimes and their distinctive domestic and foreign policies. The broad outlines of the argument are brought to life by stories about dozens of authoritarian regimes from every part of the globe."-Mark Peceny, Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, University of New Mexico, USA

Natasha Ezrow is Lecturer in the Department of Government at the University of Essex, UK, where she serves as the Director of the International Development Studies Program.
Erica Frantz is a political analyst at the Institute for Physical Sciences in McLean, VA, USA, where she specializes in authoritarian politics.