When dictators die, stability reigns
Thursday, November 3, 2016 - 09:31
in Earth & Climate
A dictator’s death rarely leads to regime change, according to a new study that comes as a fifth of the world’s authoritarian rulers are at least 70 years old and in various stages of declining health. Erica Frantz of Michigan State University and Andrea Kendall-Taylor of the National Intelligence Council studied all 79 cases of […]