Elite Rupture Institutionalized: Authoritarian Splinter Parties (ASPs) and Electoral Competition in Dictatorships

• In Event: Elections, Parties and Post-authoritarian Politics

Brief Overview

Elite defections that form Authoritarian Splinter Parties weaken ruling parties and ease opposition coordination, reshaping electoral competition in authoritarian regimes—a pattern we show globally (1945–2020) with new data and causal evidence.

Author

• Bonhoon Koo, University of Houston