Research

Authoritarian Politics

Party admission ceremony on the Dien Bien Phu battlefield, 1963. By Nguyen Sang

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

Revise & Resubmit

Under Review

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, C. M., Under pressure? Elite Defections in Times of Mass Mobilization (Data Analysis)

  • Angiolillo, F., Crippa, L., The Effect of Political Parties on FDIs in Autocracies: Evidence from Southeast Asia (Data Collection)

  • Angiolillo, F., L. Fan, E. Simison. Authoritarian Politics' Patterns of Development (Data Collection)

  • Angiolillo, F., Schmid, J., Ricart-Huguet, J., The Infilltration of the Nazi Party Across the Globe (Data Collection)

 

Published

  1. 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

  2. Nord, M., F. Angiolillo, M. Lundstedt, F. Wiebrecht, S. Lindberg, (2025) When Autocratization is Reversed: Episodes of U-Turns since 1900,Democratization, 1-24

  3. Ordanoski, G., F. Angiolillo (2025), Patterns of incumbents’ repression during autocratization, Democratization, 1-24

  4. Nord, M., Angiolillo, F., Good God, A., & Lindberg, S. I. (2025). State of the world 2024: 25 years of autocratization – democracy trumped?Democratization, 1–26

  5. 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

  6. 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

In the Works

  1. Mundt M., Pemstein D., Seim B., Angiolillo F., Mechkova V.. Did Foreign Aid Cuts Derail Democracy? Micro Evidence from 30 Democracy Aid Recipient Countries (Writing)

  2. Angiolillo, F., Wiebrecht, F. The House Approves: Policy Outcomes are Better Explained by Legislatures’ Positions Than by Executives’ Preferences

 

Regime Change

Hong Kong, 2019. © Fabio Angiolillo

 

Book Chapters

  1. Angiolillo, F., Political Parties in Autocracies, in Researching party politics: Data, methods, and (good) practices, Legein T. & C. Close, Routledge.

  2. Angiolillo, F., Political Parties and Party Systems, in Encyclopedia of Political Science, Giugni M. & Grasso M. Ed.s, Elsevier Publishing. Under contract

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

  4. 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, Forthcoming

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

  6. 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