Mark Dictators' Election Calendars: A Model of Scheduling Elections in Autocracies

• In Event: Campaigns, Representation, and Regime Stability

Brief Overview

Studying why some dictators manipulate election schedules while others do not, I use a dynamic Bayesian game and a novel global dataset to show that dictators interrupt election schedules when they believe they are very weak or very strong.

Author

• Jia Li, Pennsylvania State University