How Do Autocrats Bypass Parliaments and Nullify Elections? Revisiting Competitive Authoritarian Regimes

• In Event: Democratic Backsliding and Legislative Politics

Brief Overview

This paper offers a systematic comparison of electoral laws and intra-parliamentary rules in Hungary and Turkey, key examples of competitive authoritarianism. Autocrats' various tactics nullify their regimes' representativeness and competitiveness.

Author

• Sultan Tepe, University of Illinois Chicago