Board #6 - Obliged to Control Itself? The Puzzle of Legislative Acquiescence to Democratic Backsliding

• In Event: 70-304 - Poster Session: Comparative Political Institutions: Historic and Current Research

Brief Overview

This project develops a formal model of how a legislature comes to abet executive-induced democratic backsliding. I examine the conditions under which a legislative majority facilitates the backsliding agenda of their co-partisan executive.

Author

• Abigail Catharine Hahn, Georgetown University