Why and how electoral systems matter in autocracies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6234590 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Grigorii V Golosov (0000-0001-9769-9230, European University at Saint Petersburg, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 367-385 |
| Publication date | 2016-07-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1036-1146 • E-ISSN: 1363-030X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10361146.2016.1182617 |
| OpenAlex | W2417314033 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 62 |
This study uses a nearly comprehensive set of the world’s electoral democracies and authoritarian regimes, comprising 185 country-level observations, in order to examine the effects of electoral institutions upon party system nationalisation. Party system nationalisation is defined as the achievement of substantial electoral support for major political parties on a national basis. I hypothesise that while largely inconsequential from the perspective of alternation in power, authoritarian electoral institutions are highly consequential in that they affect party system properties in consistent, theoretically predictable ways. The empirical test confirms this hypothesis by demonstrating that in democracies and authoritarian regimes, the effects of electoral systems on party system nationalisation are similar in strength and direction. These findings imply that conventional electoral engineering can be used to enable the survival of modern autocracies
Authoritarianism · Autocracy · Democracy · Economic system · Economics · Electoral system · Order (exchange · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
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| Unique citing works | 14 |
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| Citations per year | 1,56 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |