The Global Rise of Personalized Politics: It's Not Just Dictators Anymore

2017/01/02 by Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Erica Frantz, Joseph Wright · 3 citations
Social Sciences · #Globalization and political ideologies #International Relations and Foreign Policy

paper · doi:10.1080/0163660x.2017.1302735

openalex publication_date 2017/01/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30

Abstract

No one would dispute that power in Russia today lies firmly in the hands of President Vladimir Putin. But his command over the political system was not always so sweeping. When Putin assumed power ...

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