** Please note: Those planning to attend events in this series should read the paper that will be posted on the CES website before the seminar.**
Speaker:
Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago
Discussant:
Professor of Government, Harvard University; Resident Faculty, CES, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Faculty Associate, Institute of Quantitative Social Science
Many democracies are the product of a pact between outgoing elites and incoming political entrepreneurs. What, then, explains why some fledgling democracies are able to escape the institutional legacies they inherit from dictatorship while others remained trapped in patterns of former authoritarian elite dominance? We address this question through the lens of the maintenance or replacement of holdover constitutions from prior authoritarian rule. We argue that institutional changes are spearheaded by groups of economic elites that were excluded from the transition pact and stand to gain vis-à-vis their economic rivals from the elimination of authoritarian institutional legacies. While the book tests this argument using original data on constitutional legacies, redistribution, and the fate of former dictators, this chapter presents in detail the case of Sweden.
FLAWED SINCE CONCEPTION: AUTHORITARIAN LEGACIES UNDER DEMOCRACY
LOCATION:Adolphus Busch Hall, Hoffmann Room, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20161201T211500Z DTEND:20161201T230000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR