The Politics of Uncertainty: Sustaining and Subverting Electoral Authoritarianism

by Andreas Schedler

Book Overview

Dictatorship is not what it was once. Military and single-party regimes have been withering away. Today, most dictators organize multiparty elections. The Politics of Uncertainty presents an analytical framework and empirical data that allow us to understand the distinctive political dynamics of these new electoral authoritarian regimes. It argues that all autocracies suffer from institutional uncertainties: their hold on power is never secure. They...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199680329
• ISBN13: 9780199680320
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 508 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.2" x 9.2"