Browsing by Subject "authoritarian institutions"
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Economic Returns to Deputy Status in Authoritarian Legislatures: Evidence from China
(2015)In explaining legislatures in authoritarian regimes, cooptation theory, selectorate theory, and literature on value of political connections and status suggest higher economic returns to legislators. Using survey data concerning ... -
Experimentally Estimating Safety in Numbers in a Single-Party Legislature
(Journal of Politics, 2022-07-01)This article builds on recent experimental work in the Vietnamese National Assembly to explore a critical qualification regarding responsiveness in authoritarian parliaments: delegates grow increasingly responsive as the ... -
Paint-by-Numbers Democracy: The Stakes, Structure, and Results of the 2007 Vietnamese National Assembly Election
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Testing legislator responsiveness to citizens and firms in single-party regimes: A field experiment in the vietnamese national assembly
(Journal of Politics, 2021-10-01)We investigate whether communicating constituents’ preferences to legislators increases the responsiveness of delegates to the Vietnamese National Assembly (VNA). Using a randomized control trial, we assign legislators to ... -
Unbundling the Relationship between Authoritarian Legislatures and Political Risk
(British Journal of Political Science, 2014-07)A strong statistical association between legislative opposition in authoritarian regimes and investment has been interpreted as evidence that authoritarian legislatures constrain executive decisions and reduce the threat ...
