The (Im-)mobilizing Role of Parties in Democratic Development

• In Event: Elite dynamics in authoritarian regimes

Brief Overview

Using data from the V-Dem Project for a sample of roughly 150 countries between 1789 and 2017, we explore the relationship between the timing of elections, election management, and the establishment of dominant parties in non-democratic regimes.

Authors

• Matthew Charles Wilson, University of South Carolina

• David Andersen, Aarhus University