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How to rig an election / Nic Cheeseman and Brian Klaas.
LIBRA JF1083 .C54 2018
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cheeseman, Nic, 1979- author.
- Klaas, Brian P. (Brian Paul), 1986- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Elections--Corrupt practices.
- Elections.
- Physical Description:
- v, 310 pages : charts ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- In this engaging and provocative book, Nic Cheeseman and Brian Klaas expose the limitations of national elections as a means of promoting democratization, and reveal the six essential strategies that dictators use to undermine the electoral process in order to guarantee victory for themselves.
- Contents:
- Introduction: How do you solve a problem like elections?
- Invisible rigging: How to steal an election without getting caught
- Buying hearts and minds: The art of electoral bribery
- Divide and rule: Violence as a political strategy
- Hack the election: Fake news and the digital frontier
- Ballot-box stuffing: The last resort
- Potemkin elections: How to fool the West
- Conclusion: How to stop election rigging
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300204438
- 0300204434
- OCLC:
- 1038534280
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