The Manipulation of Election Schedules and Political Participation Under Autocracy: An Experiment in Hong Kong

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Brief Overview

Dictators send a public signal of weakness by manipulating election schedules, and the signal makes citizens more willing to turn out to vote and join protests. This paper draws evidence from an original online survey experiment in Hong Kong.

Author

• Jia Li, Pennsylvania State University