How autocrats compete : parties, patrons, and unfair elections in Africa /
"Preface and Acknowledgements: This book is an examination of the ways by which autocrats compete in unfair elections, and the underlying factors that structure those contests. The ideas that guide it were first discussed in graduate seminars held back in 2007, at a time when terms like competi...
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Cambridge ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- The puzzle of electoral authoritarian competition
- Ruling parties, international patrons, and electoral authoritarian competition
- Electoral authoritarian competition and the African experience
- The origins and structure of ruling parties in Tanzania, Cameroon, and Kenya
- Ruling party credibility and the management of elite competition
- Ruling party credibility and the sources of voter support
- The electoral consequences of international patronage
- Authoritarian competition in Africa's former single-party regimes
- Conclusions: the comparative study of electoral authoritarianism.