03755cam a2200433 i 4500 22213848 DLC 20251113121017.0 t| 210902s2024 enkad rb 001|0 eng 2021038906 9781009048477 Paperback DLC eng rda DLC DLC DLC-MRC DLC DLC-MRC DLC DLC-MRC DLC DLC-MRC clrauoh pcc 324 23 POL000000 bisacsh Matovski, Aleksandar, 1978- author aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2021048640 http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/n2021048640 Popular dictatorships : crises, mass opinion, and the rise of electoral authoritarianism / Aleksandar Matovski, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2021. ©2021 xvi, 302 pages illustrations single unit mono http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/issuance/mono text txt rdacontent http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/contentTypes/txt unmediated n rdamedia http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/mediaTypes/n volume nc rdacarrier http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/carriers/nc illustrations http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/millus/ill bibliography bibliography http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/msupplcont/bibliography index index http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/msupplcont/index Includes bibliographical references and index. A "Perfect Dictatorship?" The Puzzle of Electoral Authoritarianism -- Crises, Popular Opinion, and Electoral Authoritarianism -- The Crisis Roots of Electoral Authoritarianism: A Macro-Level Analysis -- The "Strongman" Electoral Authoritarian Appeal: A Comparative Analysis -- Crises, Popular Opinion, and the Realignment of Political Competition in Russia -- Is Russia Unique? The Strongman Heresthetic in Comparative Perspective -- Conclusions and Implications. "Electoral autocracies - regimes that adopt democratic institutions but subvert them to rule as dictatorships - have become the most widespread, resilient and zalignant non-democracies today. They have consistently ruled over a third of the countries in the world, including geopolitically significant states like Russia, Turkey, Venezuela, Egypt, Indonesia, Nigeria and Pakistan. Challenging conventional wisdom, Popular Dictators shows that the success of electoral authoritarianism is not due to these regimes' superior capacity to repress, bribe, brainwash and manipulate their societies into submission, but is actually a product of their genuine popular appeal in countries experiencing deep political, economic and security crises. Promising efficient, strong-armed rule tempered by popular accountability, elected strongmen attract mass support in societies traumatized by turmoil, dysfunction and injustice, allowing them to rule through the ballot box. Popular Dictators argues that this crisis legitimation strategy makes electoral authoritarianism the most significant threat to global peace and democracy"-- Provided by publisher. Elections http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041557 Authoritarianism http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009788 POLITICAL SCIENCE / General bisacsh http://id.loc.gov/resources/instances/22213848 http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe/instanceOf http://id.loc.gov/resources/works/22213848 DLC bibframe2marc v3.0-dev 20250825 DLC https://github.com/lcnetdev/bibframe2marc/tree/v3.0-dev ddc BOOK 6646 6646 2025-11-13 12:10:49 35672005801 0 324 M433p 2024 35672005801 1 2025-11-13 BOOK 0 ddc 0 0 REFERENCE 0 BCENTRAL BCENTRAL 2025-11-13