Research

Authoritarian Politics

Speech of Lenin, 1959. By Viktor Shatalin

Published

  1. Angiolillo, F. (2024). Introducing the One-Party Membership Dataset: A dataset on party membership in autocracies. Journal of Peace Research, 61:4, 694-708

  2. 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.,Silent Resistance and Social Elites’ Politics of Opposition in Autocracies

  • 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 (previous version on SSRN)

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

  1. Angiolillo, F., Wiebrecht, F., Lindberg, S., (2025) Party Systems, Democratic Positions, and Regime Changes: Introducing the Party-System Democracy Index, Forthcoming at British Journal of Political Science

  2. Nord, M., F. Angiolillo, M. Lundstedt, F. Wiebrecht, S. Lindberg, (2025) When Autocratization is Reversed: Episodes of U-Turns since 1900, Forthcoming at Democratization

  3. 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

  4. 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

Under Review

  • Ordanoski, G., F. Angiolillo, Incumbents' Strategies of Repression during Autocratization: Evidence from Hungary and North Macedonia (Working Paper at SSRN) Invited to Revise and Resubmit

 

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., V. Mechkova, D. Pemstein, B. Seim. Democracy Surveys Project (Data Collection)

  • Alexander, A., Angiolillo, F., Good God, A., Mechkova, V., Parties and Women's Working Rights During Regime Transformations (Data Analysis)

 

Book Chapters

  1. Angiolillo, F., Global Panel Data Applied to Autocracies, in Teaching Autocracy and Autocratic Politics, Goldring E. ed., Edward Elgar Press, Under Contract

  2. 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

  3. Angiolillo, F., Single-Party Regime, in The Encyclopedia of Authoritarianism Ambrosio T. and Hall S. Eds., Edward Elgar Press, Under Contract

  4. 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

Book Project

  • Authoritarian Political Parties: Attacking Democracies and Defending Autocracies