Strategic Distortions: Electoral Reforms in Authoritarian Regimes

• In Event: Institutions and Authoritarian Regimes

Brief Overview

This paper explains when and why autocrats reform electoral rules. Using a new dataset (1980–2023), it shows that weaker regimes reform more often, and ethnic cleavages drive autocrats to adopt reforms with territorial partisan bias.

Author

• Jaime Bordel Gil, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona