Does Holding Elections Bolster the Legitimacy for the Non-Democratic Regimes? An Empirical Examination by the Difference-in-Difference Method

• In Event: JSS: Public Opinion and Regime Endurance

Brief Overview

In this article, I develop a Difference-in-difference (DID) design by utilizing the Saudi Arabia's first elections to directly examine the impact of holding elections on legitimacy of the autocratic regimes.

Author

• Haofeng Ma, University of Iowa