Chinese linkage, leverage, and Cambodia’s transition to hegemonic authoritarianism

Authoritarianism, Democracy and the Transition to Socialism

Populist Authoritarianism: The Future of the Chinese Communist Party

The conventional wisdom on China's domestic political situation is one of tension and turmoil. China's leaders seem beset with a host of problems for which they have no ready answer. They face a growing number of popular protests in the cities and the countryside. Corruption seems to be endemic, and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) lacks the means or the will to crackdown on corrupt officials,...

Threat, Authoritarianism, and Selective Exposure to Information

We examined the hypothesis that threat alters the cognitive strategies used by high authoritarians in seeking out new political information from the environment. In a laboratory experiment, threat was manipulated through a “mortality salience” manipulation used in research on terror management theory (Pyszczynski, Solomon, & Greenberg, 2003). Subjects (N = 92) were then invited to read one of t...

Perceived Threat and Authoritarianism

There has been a long history of work on authoritarianism that has looked at the role of societal threat. Much of the empirical research in this tradition has relied on aggregate data to examine the relationship between societal threat and authoritarian attitudes and behaviors. Our analysis uses individual-level data and a range of perceived threat measures to better understand the dynamics of ...

Information Leverage Theory: A Process Level Approach to Understanding the IT-Performance Linkage

This paper proposes a theory of information leverage to explain the enabling role of IT in enhancing process performance within the information processing paradigm. The basic contention is that a measure of IT value can best be ascertained at the site of its application the organizational process. A set of eight propositions provides the theoretical framework within which the design and use of ...