Lawmaking under Authoritarianism - 9781009676243

Cambridge University Press

Lawmaking under AuthoritarianismFactions, Institutions, and Outcomes Across Dictatorships\nAuthor(s): Alejandro Bonvecchi, Emilia Simison\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781009676243, 978-1009676243\nSynopsis\nWhy are legislatures in some authoritarian regimes more powerful than others? Why does influence on policies and politics vary across dictatorships? To answer these questions, Lawmaking under Authoritarianism extends the power-sharing theory of authoritarian government to argue that autocracies with balanced factional politics have more influential legislatures than regimes with unbalanced or unstable factional politics. Where factional politics is balanced, autocracies have reviser legislatures that amend and reject significant shares of executive initiatives and are able to block or reverse policies preferred by dictators. When factional politics is unbalanced, notary legislatures may am.