This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Two thirds of the world lives under dictatorship, yet we know very little about dictatorship. How are dictatorships different and how significant are the differences?

Dr Natasha Ezrow is a Senior Lecturer in Government at the University of Essex. She has recently completed a new book Failed States and Institutional Decay, and she published two books in 2011 on dictatorships. Dictators and Dictatorships is an introductory textbook and The Politics of Dictatorship is a research monograph on the duration of authoritarian regime types.

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