Obliged to Control Itself? The Puzzle of Legislative Acquiescence to Executive Aggrandizement

• In Event: Democratic Backsliding and Legislative Politics

Brief Overview

We ask instead why, once a proto-autocrat has come to power, horizontal institutions of accountability acquiesce to programs of democratic backsliding that erode not only democracy but the institutional power of the legislature itself.

Authors

• Abigail Catharine Hahn, Georgetown University

• Irfan Nooruddin, Georgetown University