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Popular dictatorships : crises, mass opinion, and the rise of electoral authoritarianism / Aleksandar Matovski, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Matovski, Aleksandar, 1978- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Elections.
- Authoritarianism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 302 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- Electoral autocracies - regimes that adopt democratic institutions but subvert them to rule as dictatorships - have become the most widespread, resilient and malignant non-democracies today. They have consistently ruled over a third of the countries in the world, including geopolitically significant states like Russia, Turkey, Venezuela, Egypt, Indonesia, Nigeria and Pakistan. Challenging conventional wisdom, Popular Dictators shows that the success of electoral authoritarianism is not due to these regimes' superior capacity to repress, bribe, brainwash and manipulate their societies into submission, but is actually a product of their genuine popular appeal in countries experiencing deep political, economic and security crises. Promising efficient, strong-armed rule tempered by popular accountability, elected strongmen attract mass support in societies traumatized by turmoil, dysfunction and injustice, allowing them to rule through the ballot box. Popular Dictators argues that this crisis legitimation strategy makes electoral authoritarianism the most significant threat to global peace and democracy.
- Contents:
- A "Perfect Dictatorship?" The Puzzle of Electoral Authoritarianism
- Crises, Popular Opinion, and Electoral Authoritarianism
- The Crisis Roots of Electoral Authoritarianism: A Macro-Level Analysis
- The "Strongman" Electoral Authoritarian Appeal: A Comparative Analysis
- Crises, Popular Opinion, and the Realignment of Political Competition in Russia
- Is Russia Unique? The Strongman Heresthetic in Comparative Perspective
- Conclusions and Implications.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Nov 2021).
- ISBN:
- 9781009051576
- 1009051571
- 9781009051729
- 1009051725
- 9781009047500
- 1009047507
- OCLC:
- 1492973258
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