When Autocrats Undermine Legislative Strength

• In Event: The Dictator Decides? Legislatures in Authoritarian Regimes

Brief Overview

Using data on legislative powers between 1900 and 2017, we conceptualize changes in the powers afforded to the national congress to characterize the development of contested versus established dictatorships and test their effects on regime survival.

Authors

• Matthew Charles Wilson, University of South Carolina

• Josef Woldense, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities