Martin K. Dimitrov is Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Tulane University. He is Associate Editor of the journal Problems of Post-Communism. He obtained his Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University in 2004. His books include Piracy and the State: The Politics of Intellectual Property Rights in China (Cambridge University Press, 2009); Why Communism Did Not Collapse: Understanding Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Asia and Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2013); The Political Logic of Socialist Consumption (Ciela Publishers, 2018); Dictatorship and Information: Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Communist Europe and China (Oxford University Press, 2023) and The Adaptability of the Chinese Communist Party (Cambridge University Press, 2024). Currently, he is working on a book entitled Welfare Dictatorships.