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Barbara Geddes

American political scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, whose typology of authoritarian regimes and dataset of autocratic breakdowns (with Joseph Wright and Erica Frantz) are standard tools for studying dictatorship.

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ConceptTypology of autocracies (Geddes, Wright and Frantz)A classification of dictatorships by who controls access to power and policy: a party, the military, a single individual, a royal family, or a hybrid. Barbara Geddes introduced it in 1999 and it became the most widely used dataset on authoritarian regimes.

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