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My dissertation identifies the conditions needed to sustain a developmental state. I argue that the presence of 'disciplinary capital' and the institutionalization of 'leadership succession' determine the developmental patterns for bureaucratic pursuit of national economic growt…

After predicting a wave of Middle East democratization that never happened, comparative scholars now face hard questions about the resilience of authoritarianism in this region. Among the most demanding puzzles is why, during the post-colonial era, autocratic states in the Middl…