Disrupting the Dominant Party: Countervailing Electoral Oversight in Authoritarian Regimes

• In Event: Empires, States, and the Making of Power III. Elites, Institutions, and the Dynamics of Political Power

Brief Overview

This paper explores how authoritarian leaders can maintain authority by weakening the dominant political parties that brought them to power in the first place.

Authors

• Anna Callis, Lafayette College

• Christopher Lee Carter, University of Virginia