Abstract
Constitutions in authoritarian regimes are usually considered to be meaningless pieces of paper. Yet leaders in a wide variety of such regimes spend a good deal of political energy producing these documents. This pair of short chapters from a forthcoming edited book provide an overview of the functions of constitutions in such regimes, and shows how they are both similar to and different from democratic counterparts.
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