Ae Sil Ashley Woo Email and Phone Number

I am a primary instructor of the class, "How to be a dictator." (Scheduled in Spring 2020) Dictatorship is the predominant form of the political regime throughout history and is still prevalent today. Dictators face threats both from the population who wants greater democratization and other regime elites who want to replace them. How do dictators navigate these threats? In this course, we study how to be a dictator. After understanding the nature of threats that dictators face, we move into the different ways that dictators design their regimes to temper these threats including repression, cooptation, institutional designs, and other forms of governance.