When Do Authoritarian Regimes Use Digital Technologies for Covert Repression? A Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) of Politico-Economic Conditions

This is a replication dataset together with the QCA script used for the analysis of the article "When Do Authoritarian Regimes Use Digital Technologies for Covert Repression? A Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) of Politico-Economic Conditions" submitted to the Swiss Political Science Review in 2024, for the special issue "Re-Authoritarianisation with Digital Means? Recent Developments in Digital Politics in East Central Europe and Central Asia". The package contains the following elements:

1) The original QCA dataset with references.

2) The supplementary dataset with the calculations related to autocratic linkages.

3) The R script used for the QCA.