BREAKING DOWN DEMOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians tions of regimes that have been sullied by the jailing of generally because of other strategic concerns or simple dissidents or opposition leaders, the shuttering of media neglect, not because lobbyists have persuaded them outlets, or violent attacks on peaceful demonstrators. that the regime in question is benevolent and just. Is the money that authoritarians allocate for image Authoritarian efforts to change governments, as beautification well spent? Some campaigns have been opposed to perceptions, may ultimately prove more more successful than others, but autocracies that rewarding. Russias wager on the rise of friendly hire well-known former cabinet secretaries or elected European populist parties already seems to be paying officials to defend or deny their acts of repression often off. After Britain's vote to withdraw from the EU and fail to sway either the public or the policy community the triumph of Donald Trump in the United States, in the United States. If democratic leaders have not the prospect of radical shifts in global politics can no mounted adequate responses to such repression, it is longer be dismissed as unthinkable. 1. Brian Whitmore, “Vladimir Putin, Conservative Icon,” Atlantic, December 20, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/international/ar- chive/2013/12/vladimir-putin-conservative-icon/282572/?single_page=true. 2. Ivo Oliveira, “National Front Seeks Russian Cash for Election Fight,” Politico, February 19, 2016, http://www.politico.eu/article/le- pen-russia-crimea-putin-money-bank-national-front-seeks-russian-cash-for-election-fight/. 3. Andrew Higgins, “Far-Right Fever for a Europe Tied to Russia,” New York Times, May 20, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/21/ world/europe/europes-far-right-looks-to-russia-as-a-guiding-force.html?_r=0. 4. Susi Dennison and Dina Pardijs, “The World according to Europe’ Insurgent Parties: Putin, Migration and Peop