Elite Management in Autocracies

About This Research Stream

This stream uses organizational positions, appointments, career sequences, and elite networks to study how autocracies manage officials and maintain governing coalitions.

Lab Connections

Approaches

• Networks & Organizations

Databases

• China Politics
• Kazakhstan Media
• Kazakhstan Politics
• North Korea Media
• North Korea Politics

Publications

3 publications →

Contributors

• Ayazhan Yerzhomartova
• Bonggyu Lee
• Connie Wang 王澄嘉
• Emily Kao
• Jeongsue Park
• Jongsung Shin
• Liang Ta, Wen 温亮達
• Mukhamejan Bazarov
• Yi-Chieh Chung

Grants

• 2026 - 1Y - UiB - Elite Management in North Korea's KWP and China's CCP — 2026
• 2025 - 3Y - NSTC - Political Economy of North Korean Development — 2025
• 2023 - 1Y - NCCU - Elite Personnel Management in North Korea, 1980-2022 — 2023

Relevant Literature

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