The politics of uncertainty : sustaining and subverting electoral authoritarianism / Andreas Schedler

This volume offers a major new theory of authoritarian politics. It studies regime struggles between government and opposition under electoral authoritarianism and argues that autocracies suffer from institutional uncertainties

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:Schedler, Andreas (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:Oxford : Oxford Univ. Press, 2013
Edition:1. ed
Series:Oxford studies in democratization
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Online Access:Autorenbiografie
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of Contents
The politics of uncertaintyShaping the authoritarian arena
Shaping the electoral arena
Two levels of struggle
The power of elections
Comparative cases and data
The struggle over electoral uncertainty
The calculus of electoral manipulation
The calculus of electoral protest
The struggle over regime change.