Opposing Power Over Time: Learning to Build Opposition Coalitions in Electoral Autocracies

• In Event: Parties in Autocracies and Transitional Democracies

Brief Overview

Theorizes the various forms of cooperation within opposition coalitions, and the conditions under which cooperation occurs. Proposes that opposition party leaders learn to build alliances over iterated cycles of autocratic elections over time.

Author

• Elvin Ong, University of British Columbia