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dc.title | To cheat or not to cheat? The Strategic Decision of Electoral Fraud in Competitive Autocracies | |
dc.contributor.author | MARIA WAQAR | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-10-31T18:00:53Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-10-31T18:00:53Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011-04-29 | |
dc.identifier.citation | MARIA WAQAR (2011-04-29). To cheat or not to cheat? The Strategic Decision of Electoral Fraud in Competitive Autocracies. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/27926 | |
dc.description.abstract | Why does pressure to hold free and fair elections by the opposition prevent some competitive autocrats from stealing elections but not others? My paper illustrates how extent of power-sharing in the autocratic party determines the decision to either refrain from ballot-rigging or try to cling to power through electoral fraud when the opposition can credibly threaten a massive civil disobedience against tainted elections. I argue that diffused power in the ruling party/high power-sharing amongst party elites makes the autocrat refrain from electoral rigging, even at the risk of losing, when there is a high threat that the opposition will lead a large-scale civil disobedience to challenge tainted election results. While in the case of concentrated power in the ruling party/low power-sharing amongst party elites the autocrat will rig elections to cling to power even when there is a high threat of civil disobedience following suit. I analyze the contrasting cases of the Socialist Party of Serbia and Institutional Republican Party in Mexico to test my theory. | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.subject | authoritarianism,elections,party,power-sharing,mass conflict,popular pressure | |
dc.type | Thesis | |
dc.contributor.department | POLITICAL SCIENCE | |
dc.contributor.supervisor | TERENCE LEE CHEK LIANG | |
dc.description.degree | Master's | |
dc.description.degreeconferred | MASTER OF SOCIAL SCIENCES | |
dc.identifier.isiut | NOT_IN_WOS | |
Appears in Collections: | Master's Theses (Open) |
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