🌍 Amid renewed authoritarian expansion and democratic backsliding, historically accumulated and inherited coercive capacity constrains how states respond to dissent—shaping when repression persists and when reform or redistribution becomes possible. 👇
Juan Felipe Riaño
📢New Working Paper Alert📢
Very excited to share the latest version of our paper with
@hlarreguy.bsky.social, David Martinez, and Mariano Sánchez-T on how authoritarian regimes vary their strategies across territory to maintain political control.
đź”—https://juanfeliperiano.com/papers/militias.pdf
