KNAW grant for Frank Pieke
To organise an Academy Colloquium on 'The New Authoritarianism: Russia and China in Comparative Perspective', in cooperation with André Gerrits.
Academy Colloquia are small-scale prestigious conferences subsidied by KNAW.
'The New Authoritarianism' aims to contribute to the scholarly debate about 'hybrid' regimes, i.e. political systems combining democracy and dictatorship.