Scott Williamson

 Legislatures and Policy Making in Authoritarian Regimes (With Beatriz Magaloni).

This article concludes a special issue in Comparative Political Studies on the role of authoritarian legislatures in the policy process.

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The special issue’s other articles can be found here:

• Legislatures and Legislative Politics Without Democracy.

• Authoritarian Amendments: Legislative Institutions as Intraexecutive Constraints in Post-Soviet Russia.

• Authoritarian Gridlock? Understanding Delay in the Chinese Legislative System.

• Position Taking or Position Ducking? A Theory of Public Debate in Single-Party Legislatures.

• Policy Coalition Building in an Authoritarian Legislature: Evidence from China’s National Assemblies (1983-2007).