Why do autocracies enfranchise their citizens abroad? A large-N event history analysis, 1990-2010 [0.03%]
为什么独裁政权会给予其海外国民选举权？一项1990-2010年的事件史分析研究
Nicolas Fliess,Ali Kiani,Eva Østergaard-Nielsen
Nicolas Fliess
Autocratic ruling elites allow elections as a survival strategy. Many authoritarian regimes have taken this tactic one step further, also inviting their diaspora to vote from afar. This may seem puzzling given that elections abroad are diff...
Laure Bokobza,Jacob Nyrup
Laure Bokobza
In 2020, almost 50% of dictatorships included multiple parties in their government. Existing research has not studied this systematically, and generally considers granting outsiders access to ministerial cabinets a risky and costly strategy...
Clionadh Raleigh,Andrea Carboni
Clionadh Raleigh
This paper examines the importance of, and variations in, political alignment within African regimes. Political alignment is how leaders establish sufficient political support across elites: we posit that formal appointments are the primary...
Vanessa A Boese,Amanda B Edgell,Sebastian Hellmeier et al.
Vanessa A Boese et al.
This article introduces a novel conceptualization of democratic resilience - a two-stage process where democracies avoid democratic declines altogether or avert democratic breakdown given that such autocratization is ongoing. Drawing on the...