Fear pervades dictatorial regimes. Citizens fear leaders, the regime''s agents fear superiors, and leaders fear the masses. The ubiquity of fear in such regimes gives rise to the "dictator''s dilemma," where autocrats do not know the level of opposition they face and cannot effectively neutralize domestic threats to their rule. The dilemma has led scholars to believe that autocracies are likely to be short-lived.Yet, some autocracies have found ways to mitigate the dictator''s dilemma. As Martin K. Dimitrov shows in Dictatorship and Information, substantial variability exists in the survival of nondemocratic regimes, with single-party polities having the longest average duration. Offering a systematic theory of the institutional solutions to the dictator''s dilemma, Dimitrov argues that single-party autocracies have fostered channels that allow for the confidential vertical transmission ofinformation, while also solving the problems associated with distorted information. To explain how
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