Legislator Recruitment and Retainment in Authoritarian Parliaments: The Case of Russia in the 2000s

• In Event: Elections in Russia and Ukraine

Brief Overview

This paper leverages a unique dataset of all candidates in Russia’s last competitive parliamentary election and their subsequent retainment in a consolidated authoritarian legislature to test theories of authoritarian legislative politics.

Authors

• Henry E. Hale, George Washington University

• Julian Gordon Waller, George Washington University