Winning Prospects and Changing Preferences on the Powers of the Executive: Evidence from the Transition to Superpresidentialism in Turkey

• In Event: Political behavior in autocracies

Brief Overview

Do voters change preferences about system of government based on who might win elections? Through a priming experiment in a survey, we study this question in Turkey which conducted its first elections after the transition to superpresidentialism.

Authors

• Aytug Sasmaz, Harvard University

• Alper Yagci, Ozyegin University

• Daniel F. Ziblatt, Harvard University