VOTING FOR AUTOCRACY by Beatriz Magaloni ( 9780521736596 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

VOTING FOR AUTOCRACY
HEGEMONIC PARTY SURVIVAL AND ITS DEMISE IN MEXICO

By:

Beatriz Magaloni

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0521736595

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9780521736596

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 August, 2008

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics

Pages:

316

Description:

This 2006 book provides a theory of the logic of survival of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).

Synopsis:

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. An autocratic regime hid behind the facade of elections that were held with clockwise precision. Although their outcome was totally predictable, elections were not hollow rituals. The PRI made millions of ordinary citizens vest their interests in the survival of the autocratic regime. Voters could not simply 'throw the rascals out of office' because their choices were constrained by a series of strategic dilemmas that compelled them to support the autocrats. The book also explores the factors that led to the demise of the PRI. The theory sheds light on the logic of 'electoral autocracies', among the most common type of autocracy, and is the only systematic treatment in the literature today dealing with this form of autocracy.

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Cambridge University Press

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Joint winner of American Political Science Association Political

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