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Jul 2023
52m 21s

Sergei Guriev Revisits Spin Dictators

JUSTIN KEMPF
About this episode

Spin dictators have fewer political prisoners, fewer political killings. This is good. This is really good. On the other hand, we want to tell everybody that they are still dictators.

Sergei Guriev

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Sergei Guriev is a professor of Economics at Sciences Po in Paris. He was a former chief economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the former rector of the New Economic School in Moscow. He is the coauthor (along with Daniel Treisman) of Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century.

Key Highlights

  • Introduction - 0:46
  • Spin Dictatorships and Fear Dictatorships - 3:12
  • Popular Support - 25:21
  • Putin - 39:44
  • Beyond Spin Dictatorship - 43:49

Key Links

Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century by Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman

"Informational Autocrats" in the Journal of Economic Perspectives by Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman

Follow Sergei Guriev on Twitter @sguriev

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Anne Applebaum on Autocracy, Inc

Larry Bartels Says Democracy Erodes from the Top

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