Dominant Party Rule, Elections, and Cabinet Instability in African Autocracies
@article{Kroeger2018DominantPR, title={Dominant Party Rule, Elections, and Cabinet Instability in African Autocracies}, author={Alex Kroeger}, journal={British Journal of Political Science}, year={2018}, volume={50}, pages={79 - 101} }
This article draws on the authoritarian institutions literature to explain the role of dominant parties in constraining the ability of autocrats to reshuffle cabinet ministers. Dominant party leaders are constrained in their ability to frequently reshuffle ministers by the need to maintain credible power-sharing commitments with party elites. These constraints also produce distinct temporal patterns of instability where large reshuffles occur following elections. Conversely, personalist leaders…
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