Sowing Dues, Reaping Ballots: Cultivating Opposition Under Competitive Authoritarianism in Pre-War Eastern Europe

• In Event: Parties, Elections, and State Building

Brief Overview

What causes opposition party success in competitive authoritarian regimes? I leverage the case of post-Ottoman Bulgarian to test whether sub-national variation in private property ownership affects opposition party electoral success.

Author

• Josiah C Augustine, The George Washington University