“Purges in Dictatorships: How Authoritarian Rulers Consolidate Power Over Time,” Forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.
Book Workshop
A book workshop was held at Indiana University, Bloomington in October 2024, bringing together leading scholars to provide structured feedback on the manuscript. Participants included: Brett Carter, University of Southern California; Henk Goemans, University of Rochester, Sheena Greitens, University of Texas, Austin; Dan Mattingly, Yale University; Monika Nalepa, University of Chicago; Jessica Weeks, University of Wisconsin-Madison; and Joe Wright, Penn State University.
Research Support
This project has received support from several external funding sources:
- Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2022–2024): 24-month fellowship
- Carnegie Research Incentive Grant (2018): data collection
- British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant (2018): data collection
Related Publications and Public Engagement
- Interviewed as an expert contributor on elite purges in authoritarian regimes for The Dictators’ Survival Guide (Currently series), BBC Radio 4, 30 August 2026; repeated on the BBC World Service, 10 September 2026.
- Sudduth, Jun Koga. 2026. “Double-Edged Swords: How Military Purges Shape Authoritarian Appetite for War.” War on the Rocks.
- Sudduth, Jun Koga. 2021. “Purging Militaries: Introducing the Military Purges in Dictatorships (MPD) Dataset.” Journal of Peace Research 58(4): 870–880.
- Sudduth, Jun Koga. 2017. “Strategic Logic of Elite Purges in Dictatorships.” Comparative Political Studies 50(13): 1768–1801.
