Editors

Dr Jeroen J.J. Van den Bosch studied Area Studies (Slavonic Studies) and Political Science (International Relations) at the Catholic University in Leuven (Belgium) and Poznan (Adam Mickiewicz University [AMU]). Since 2018, he works as an Erasmus+ project coordinator at AMU, raising funds and managing complex, consortium-based, educational projects. His previous projects include: EISCAS, EISIPS, M.O.R.D.O.R., CAGHAN-P. In parallel, he is active as an independent scholar and has written Personalist Rule in Africa and Other World Regions (Routledge, 2021) and co-edited The European handbook of Central Asian Studies: History, Politics, and Societies (ibidem-Verlag, 2021), Handbook of Indo-Pacific Studies (Routledge, 2023), and Research Handbook on Authoritarianism (Edward Elgar, 2024). His research fields encompass theories of dictatorships, their classification, autocratic cooperation democratization, political regimes theories, sub-Saharan Africa and Central Asia. This Encyclopedia Tyrannica was created in the frame of the M.O.R.D.O.R. project, of which J. Van den Bosch is the project coordinator.

Dr Natasha Lindstaedt is Professor of Government at the University of Essex, where she also serves as the Faculty Dean for Education in the Social Sciences. Dr Lindstaedt's research focuses on authoritarian regimes, governance, democratic backsliding, and human security.  She has published extensively on these topics including Dictators and Dictatorships (Bloomsbury, 2011), The Politics of Dictatorships (Lynne Rienner, 2011), Failed States and Institutional Decay (Bloomsbury, 2013), Democracies and Authoritarian Regimes (Oxford University Press, 2019), Democratic Decay and Authoritarian Resurgence (Bristol University Press, 2021), and, most recently, the Research Handbook on Authoritarianism (Edward Elgar, 2024). At the University of Essex, she has taught courses in Authoritarian Politics, State Building and Governance, International Development, International Security, Latin American Politics, Asian Politics, and Middle East Politics.  In addition to her teaching and research, she has consulted for the United Nations Economic and Social Commission of Western Asia, and has worked on projects with the European Union External Action Service and IDEA International.