Authoritarian multiparty governments.

ABSTRACT: 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. This article provides evidence of authoritarian multiparty governments (AMGs) being a global and increasingly common phenomena. We argue that AMGs are a power-sharing strategy whereby autocrats co-opt outsiders through cabinet appointments to divide the opposition and consolidate their rule. Using individual-level data on ministers' partisan affiliation in autocracies worldwide, we show that AMGs positively correlate with ethnic divides, civil war, and "democratic" institutions, and we use new measures of power sharing to demonstrate that coalition par

SUBMITTER: Bokobza L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11601049 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature