The author, Milan W. Svolik employs a quantitative, large N methodological approach for the research in this book. The formal model that Svolik presented in this book was game-theoretical model. This strategy was used to evaluate the effects of authoritarian power-sharing. The theoretical frameworks that are posed from Svolik help tremendously to contribute to the audience’s understanding of the many concepts laid out. He wanted to set a foundation that perfectly analyzes and provides a quantitative range of empirical outcomes for the many dictatorships over the past century. Svolik mentioned that he proposed “an alternative approach that explicitly identifies the conceptual dimensions of authoritarian politics being measured and then develops appropriate scales for each dimension” (Svolik, 2012). The data presented in the book cover a certain period from 1946-2008, that are designated at three levels of observation: the country level, the ruling-coalition level, and the leader level. At the country level, Svolik measures the four dimensions, which were explained in detail in my concepts wiki. These dimensions include military involvement in politics, restrictions on political parties, legislative selection, and executive selection. Additionally, Svolik goes on to highlight the measure of authoritarian stability, which is also known as the ruling-coalition spell, which is another term explained in detail in my concepts wiki. The final section of the book provides the numerical data of the results he compiled from his research. It is explained in a statistical format, which would make it difficult to explain in this wiki. But from these results based on the tests Svolik ran, he was able to gather the necessary information to answer his main question of what drives politics in dictatorships. Much later in the book, he provides several empirical analyses in tests that measure the balance of power between the dictator and the ruling coalition or to investigate how and when institutions facilitate authoritarian power-sharing- using similar formal models throughout.