Elements in Political Economy: Backsliding by Haggard Stephan & Kaufman Robert

Author:Haggard, Stephan & Kaufman, Robert [Haggard, Stephan & Kaufman, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781108958400
Publisher: CambridgeUP
Published: 2021-01-12T00:00:00+00:00

3.4 Electoral Rules and Disproportionality

As a number of the cases discussed have already suggested, disproportionality – differences between popular vote and legislative seats shares – also played an important role in the rise of autocrats.5 Table 5 provides a simple – indeed crude – measure of disproportionality by comparing the popular vote share for the backsliding party with the seats it gained in the lower house. It starts with the “founding” elections that brought autocrats to power but provides information on subsequent elections as well; we omit the cases of Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia discussed already due to the fundamental institutional discontinuities associated with the formation of constituent assemblies and Brazil because of its particularly fragmented party system.

Table 5: Lower House Vote and Seat Shares in Backsliding Cases

Lower House Vote share/seat share (%)

Dominican Republic 2014-2018 PLD 2017: 41.8/55.0

Greece 2017-2019

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