Playing with The Time: Electoral Schedule in Authoritarian Regimes
Keywords:
electoral cycle, elections, types of authoritarian regimes, endogeneityAbstract
When do autocrats manipulate election timing? To what extent does manipulation increase the odds of the desirable outcomes? Drawing on the assumption of information asymmetry (also known as the 'dictator's dilemma'), the author analyzed 64 authoritarian regimes from 1990 to 2011 by means of descriptive statistics. The article addresses the issue of endogeneity of elections in authoritarian regimes, presenting diverging institutional contexts as a causal variable for explaining post-electoral protests and intra-elite splitsDOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17072/2218-1067-2015-4-5-28References
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