1. The Diffusion of Instability in Authoritarian Regimes Open Access Author: Brawner, Thomas W Title: The Diffusion of Instability in Authoritarian Regimes Graduate Program: Political Science Keywords: DiffusionAuthoritarian RegimesDemocratic TransitionRegularizationMachine LearningPredictionCoups File: Download brawner_dissertation.pdf Committee Members: Joseph Wright, Dissertation Advisor/Co-AdvisorJoseph Wright, Committee Chair/Co-ChairDonna Bahry, Committee MemberBumba Mukherjee, Committee MemberJohannes Fedderke, Outside Member