Oxford Authoritarian Politics Network

DPIR’s Authoritarian Politics Network brings together graduate students and faculty with interdisciplinary and regional expertise from DPIR, OSGA, and the Blavatnik School of Government to discuss research on authoritarian politics. It provides a space to discuss and advance interdisciplinary research and provide feedback on work in progress. 

Current research themes include: 

1. Public opinion in authoritarian regimes;
2. Autocracy promotion in the international system, for example through authoritarian propaganda targeting public opinion in democracies;
3. Protest and social movements;
4. Authoritarian ruling strategies: legal and bureaucratic repression and (digital) propaganda.