Andreas Schedler

Politics of Uncertainty

Sustaining and Subverting Electoral Authoritarianism

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 508
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 907g
• ISBN-13: 9780199680320
• ISBN-10: 0199680329
• Artikelnr.: 38533338

Autorenporträt

Andreas Schedler is professor of political science at the Center for Economic Teaching and Research (CIDE) in Mexico City. He earned his PhD from the University of Vienna. He has conducted research on issues such as anti-political-establishment parties, accountability, democratic consolidation and transition, elections, and authoritarianism. In the field of methodology, he has worked on concept analysis and cross-national measurement. Between 2000 and 2012, he refounded and reconsolidated the Committee on Concepts and Methods (C&M) of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), first as its chair then as vice-chair. His articles have appeared in scholarly journals such as Comparative Political Studies, Perspectives on Politics, the Journal of Democracy, the European Journal of Political Research, Party Politics, the Journal of Political Philosophy, and Political Research Quarterly.

Inhaltsangabe

I: Analytical framework
1: The politics of uncertainty
2: Shaping the authoritarian arena
3: Shaping the electoral arena
4: Two levels of struggle
5: The power of elections
II: Empirical explorations
6: Comparative cases and data
7: The struggle over electoral uncertainty
8: The calculus of electoral manipulation
9: The calculus of electoral protest
10: The struggle over regime change
Conclusion
Appendix A: Case selection
Appendix B: Description of variables
Appendix C: Coding manipulation and protest
Appendix D: Descriptive statistics
Appendix E: Miscellaneous results