Alexander Baturo is an Associate Professor of Government, Dublin City University. He has published in journals such as Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, the British Journal of Political Science, and Political Research Quarterly. His book, Democracy, Dictatorship, and Term Limits (University of Michigan Press, 2014) won the Brian Farrell book prize in 2015. He also edited the Politics of Presidential Term Limits (OUP, 2019). Johan A. Elkink is Associate Professor in Research Methods for the Social Sciences at University College Dublin. His work spans computational modelling, spatial econometrics, and statistical network analysis, applied to voting behaviour, democratization, and comparative politics generally. His work has appeared in the Journal of Politics, the European Journal of Political Research, and Comparative Political Studies.
1: Regime Personalization in Russia
2: Understanding Regime Personalization
3: The Politics of 'Collective Putin' and Patronage Personalization
4: Regime Deinstitutionalization
5: Tandemology: The Problem of Succession and Permanency in Office
6: Personalization in the Media and Rhetoric
7: Conclusions and Implications
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