title: Post-Populism: Transitions from Populist to Personalist Authoritarian Rule
abstract: Populism is a political strategy in which political leaders directly mobilize support through mass communication, typically posing as the opponents of an entrenched political elite. Although a growing body of research shows that populists draw on their mass support to weaken executive constraints, less attention has been given to what follows this populist turn. Specifically, under what circumstances are populists capable of leveraging their erstwhile mass support into authoritarian rule over th