Voting in a Hybrid Regime
ISBN:
9789811379550
Auflage:
1st ed. 2019
Verlag:
Springer Singapore
Land des Verlags:
Malaysia
Erscheinungsdatum:
26.06.2019
Reihe:
Politics of South Asia
Format:
Hardcover
Seitenanzahl:
109
Lieferung in 5-10 Werktagen
Versandkostenfrei ab 40 Euro in Österreich
This Pivot explores the mechanism of election manipulation in ostensibly democratic but essentially authoritarian systems called the hybrid regime, using the 2018 parliamentary elections in Bangladesh as an example. The 2018 election has delivered an unprecedented victory to the incumbent Bangladesh Awami League. Elections pose serious dilemmas for the leaders of hybrid regimes. While contested elections bolster their claims of democracy and augment their legitimacy, they can also threaten the status quo. Faced with the challenge, the incumbents tend to hold stage-managed elections. This book offers incisive examination of Bangladesh’s political environment, rigorous scrutiny of the roles of state institutions including the law enforcing agencies, and meticulous analysis of election results. It also fills in a gap in the extant hybrid regime literature which seldom explores the strategies of engineered elections.
Schlagwörter
democracy
Authoritarianism
Hybrid Regimes
Democratization in Bangladesh
Elections in South Asia
Political Parties and Elections
Legitimacy and Elections
Regime Transformation in Bangladesh
Regime Transformation in South Asia
Authoritarianism in South Asia
Hybrid Regimes in South Asia
Democratization in South Asia
Biografische Anmerkung
Ali Riaz is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Illinois State University, USA. He also holds the Thomas E Eimermann Professorship. Riaz previously worked as a Broadcast Journalist at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in London and served as a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at Washington D.C. His publications include Bangladesh: A Political History since Independence (2016).
