Authoritarianism and the elite origins of democracy: by Michael Albertus and Victor Menaldo, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2018, xi+312 pp., references, index, £75.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-107-19982-8, £22.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-316-64903-9, $24.00 (ebook), ISBN 978-1-108-19642-0. Issue 3 (2nd April 2020)