Often dismissed as window-dressing, nominally democratic
institutions, such as legislatures and political parties, play an
important role in non-democratic regimes. In a comprehensive
cross-national study of all non-democratic states from 1946 to 2002
that examines the political uses of these institutions by
dictators, Gandhi finds that legislative and partisan institutions
are an important component in the operation and survival of
authoritarian regimes. She examines how and why these institutions
are useful to dictatorships in maintaining power, analyzing the way
dictators utilize institutions as a forum in which to organize
political concessions to potential opposition in an effort to
neutralize threats to their power and to solicit cooperation from
groups outside of the ruling elite. The use of legislatures and
parties to co-opt opposition results in significant institutional
effects on policies and outcomes under dictatorship.
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