Authoritarian Landscapes: Popular Mobilization and the Institutional Sources of Resilience in Nondemocracies

The turbulent year of 2011 has brought the appearance of mass popular unrest and the collapse of long lived auratic regimes in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and possibly Syria. The sudden and unanticipated fall of these regimes – often thought of as exemplars of authoritarian resilience - has brought much of the conventional wisdom on the durability and vulnerability of nondemocratic regimes into question. This book seeks to advance the existing literature by treating the auratic state not as a uni...