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, Jennifer 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. In
their efforts to neutralize threats to their power and to solicit
cooperation from society, autocratic leaders use these institutions
to organize concessions to potential opposition. 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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