Authoritarianism's Last Line of Defense
Andreas Schedler
Journal of Democracy, Volume 21, Number 1, January 2010, pp.
69-80 (Article)
Published by The Johns Hopkins University Press
DOI: 10.1353/jod.0.0137
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Menus of Institutional Manipulation
Institutional Ambiguity
The Politics of the Possible
Contemporary electoral
autocracies have
given up the longstanding
battle against
the establishment of
representative institutions.
They have shifted
their authoritarian
energies from repressing
formally democratic
institutions to manipulating
them.