Voting for Autocracy - Hegemonic Party Survival and Its Demise in Mexico

Informationen zum Autor Beatriz Magaloni is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. Klappentext This 2006 book provides a theory of the logic of survival of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Zusammenfassung This 2006 book provides a theory of the logic of survival of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)! one of the most resilient autocratic regimes in the twentieth century. The theory explains the logic of 'electoral autocracies'! and is the only systematic treatment in the literature today dealing with this form of autocracy. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Equilibrium party hegemony; 2. Structural determinants of mass support; 3. Budget cycles under autocracy; 4. The politics of vote-buying; 5. Judging economic performance in hard times; 6. Ideological divisions in the opposition camp; 7. How voters choose and mass coordination dilemmas; 8. Electoral fraud and the game of electoral transitions; 9. Conclusion.

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• Authors: Beatriz Magaloni, Beatriz (Stanford University Magaloni
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.08.2008
• EAN: 9780521736596
• ISBN: 978-0-521-73659-6
• No. of pages: 316
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparati
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education