Popular Dictatorships: Crises, Mass Opinion, and the Rise of Electoral Authoritarianism Matovski Aleksandar
Popular Dictatorships: Crises, Mass Opinion, and the Rise of Electoral Authoritarianism Matovski Aleksandar Electoral autocracies - regimes that adopt democratic institutions but subvert them to rule…
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Popular Dictatorships: Crises, Mass Opinion, and the Rise of Electoral Authoritarianism Matovski Aleksandar
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. 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. 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.
Promising efficient, strong-armed rule tempered by popular accountability, elected strongmen attract mass support in societies traumatized by turmoil,