Democratic Institutions Find the Way: The Effect of Authoritarian Executive Elections on Human Development
Keywords:
human development, authoritarian regimes, executive elections, panel dataAbstract
Why do some authoritarian regimes improve human development while others do not? Despite advances in research explaining different economic outcomes in democracies, little is known about why autocrats might improve living conditions in their countries. I argue that autocrats who allow executive elections face greater short-term risk of losing power. Consequently, they should be more likely to improve human development. To evaluate this argument, I use a sample of 135 autocracies between 1972 and 2008 and I conduct several cross-sectional time-series models. Evidence suggests that executive elections improve human development in autocracies in the short term.
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