Research
Authoritarian Politics
Speech of Lenin, 1959. By Viktor Shatalin
Published
Angiolillo, F. (2024). Introducing the One-Party Membership Dataset: A dataset on party membership in autocracies. Journal of Peace Research, 61:4, 694-708
Angiolillo, F. (2023). Authoritarian Ruling Parties’ Recruitment Dilemma: Evidence from China, Journal of East Asian Studies, 23:3, 491-515
Under Review
Angiolillo, F., The Persistent Effect of State-Based Political Violence on Support for Fascism
Angiolillo, F., Why Do Citizens Refuse to Join the Authoritarian Ruling Party? Evidence From China
Angiolillo, F., When the Party Fails: The Role of Party Members for Authoritarian Ruling Party Survival
Angiolillo, F., Matthews A., Sequential Purging in Autocratic Ruling Parties
In the Works
Angiolillo, F., F. Wiebrecht, Authoritarian Party Building, Elites’ Retention, and the Effects on Clientelism (Working Paper)
del Rio, A., Angiolillo, F., Dahl, M., Rivera Celestino, M., Under pressure? Elite Defections in Times of Mass Mobilization (Data Analysis)
Published
Angiolillo, F., Wiebrecht, F., Lindberg, S., (2025) Party Systems, Democratic Positions, and Regime Changes: Introducing the Party-System Democracy Index, British Journal of Political Science, 55:e42, 1-24
Nord, M., F. Angiolillo, M. Lundstedt, F. Wiebrecht, S. Lindberg, (2025) When Autocratization is Reversed: Episodes of U-Turns since 1900, Democratization, 1-24
Ordanoski, G., F. Angiolillo (2025), Incumbents' Strategies of Repression during Autocratization: Evidence from Hungary and North Macedonia, Accepted at Democratization
Angiolillo, F., Lundstedt, M., Nord, M., & Lindberg, S. I. (2024). State of the world 2023: democracy winning and losing at the ballot. Democratization, 1–25
Wiebrecht, F., Sato, Y., Nord, M., Lundstedt, M., Angiolillo, F., & Lindberg, S. I. (2023). State of the world 2022: defiance in the face of autocratization. Democratization, 30:5, 769-793
Regime Change
Hong Kong, 2019. © Fabio Angiolillo
Political Behaviour & Public Policy
Chengdu, 2018. © Fabio Angiolillo
Under Review
Angiolillo, F., Wiebrecht, F. The House Approves: Policy Outcomes are Better Explained by Legislatures’ Positions Than by Executives’ Preferences
In the Works
Angiolillo, F., Kuraishi, A., Triggers of Democratic Values: Global Experimental Evidence (Working Paper)
Angiolillo, F., T. Bollyky, J. Dieleman, S. Lindberg, M. Lundset, S. Wigley, U-Turns and Health Policy Outcomes, (Data Analysis)
Alexander, A., Angiolillo, F., Good God, A., Mechkova, V., Parties and Women's Working Rights During Regime Transformations (Data Analysis)
Angiolillo, F., V. Mechkova, D. Pemstein, B. Seim. Democracy Surveys Project (Data Collection)
Book Chapters
Angiolillo, F., Global Panel Data Applied to Autocracies, in Teaching Autocracy and Autocratic Politics, Goldring E. ed., Edward Elgar Press, Under Contract
Wiebrecht,F., Angiolillo,F., Lundstedt, M., Nord,M., Sato, S., Lindberg, S., Third Wave of Autocratization, in The Encyclopaedia on Authoritarianism, Ambrosio T. and Hall S. Eds, Edward Elgar Press, Under Contract
Angiolillo, F., Single-Party Regime, in The Encyclopedia of Authoritarianism Ambrosio T. and Hall S. Eds., Edward Elgar Press, Under Contract
Casarini, N., Mariani, L., Angiolillo, F., (2018) Political values in Italy’s China policy: A “constructive approach”, in Rühlig, N., van der Putten, J FP, Seaman, J., Otero-Iglesias, M., Ekman, A., Political values in Europe-China relations, ETNC
PhD Thesis
Party Membership in Autocracies: Ruling Parties’ Recruitment Strategies and Organizational Strength
2023 Hong Kong University Outstanding Research Top 5% Quality
2022 Virginia Gray Graduate Student Award, APSA Political Organisations and Parties Section
Book Project
Authoritarian Political Parties: Attacking Democracies and Defending Autocracies