Foreign Pressure and the Politics of Autocratic Survival

Abel Escribà-Folch is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. His research interests include authoritarian regimes survival and their institutions, democratization, repression, transitional justice, and how international factors influence domestic politics in autocratic contexts. He has published, among others, in International Organization, British Journal of PoliticalScience, Comparative Political Studies, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Peace Research, Democratization, European Journal of Political Research, International Political Science Review, among others.Joseph Wright teaches at Pennsylvania State University. He completed his Ph.D. at UCLA, and has held post-doctoral positions at Princeton University and the University of Notre Dame. He studies comparative political economy with a particular interest in how international factors - such as foreign aid, economic sanctions, human rights prosecutions, and migration - influence domestic politics in autocratic regimes. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the MinervaResearch Initiative and he teaches courses on authoritarian politics.