This article explores the determinants of the vote in regimes that experience a political transition. First of all, it states that the electoral process and the transition to democracy keep an endogenous relation, since ...

In numerous countries over the past two decades, the independence of electoral management bodies (EMBs) has emerged as a crucial and contentious issues of democratization. Often inter-party conflicts have revolved around ...

The recent comparative literature on authoritarian institutions has been tracing the consequences formal institutions bear on the longevity of authoritarian rule. Striving to explain transitions from electoral authoritarian ...

The present paper proposes new venues for measuring and conceptualizing levels of competitiveness in electoral autocracies. Instead of relying on single indicators and predefined thresholds, it classifies a sample of 58 ...

Electoral authoritarian regimes practice authoritarianism behind the institutional facades of representative democracy. They hold regular multiparty elections at the national level, yet violate liberal-democratic minimum ...