Relative Mobilization Capacity and Civil Liberties Across Polities

• In Event: Electoral Effects and Varieties of Authoritarianism

Brief Overview

In this paper we expand on previous research looking at the role of electoral competition in post-communist countries. Here we introduce a new measure of electoral competition to assess its impact on civil liberties in different types of regimes.

Authors

• Alexander Carl Pacek, Texas A & M University-College Station

• Ruchan Kaya, Austin College