The Relationship Between Public Approval of Authoritarian Leaders and Their Parties: Untangling the Causal Direction

• In Event: Incumbency and Ideology in the Study of Political Parties

Brief Overview

This paper investigates the relationship between the public approval of political parties and the approval of their leaders in non-democracies. I analyze whether the party leader’s approval predicts the ruling party’s approval or vice versa.

Author

• Daria Kuznetsova, University of Iowa