"Goldring, a political scientist at the University of Melbourne in Australia, combines what social scientists sometimes refer to as middle-range theory (a framework that is explanatory but parsimonious and not trying to explain too much), extensive analysis of a new dataset of purges, and a set of case studies, the most prominent being a paired comparison of periods in North and South Korea’s respective twentieth (and twenty-first) century autocratic histories."
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First seen: 2026-08-28 ·
Last seen: 2026-08-28 ·
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