Azerbaijan's Frustrating Elections

Bibliographic Data

ID6287686
AuthorsLeila Alieva (0000-0003-3311-9780, corresponding author)
Year2006
Volume17
Issue2
Pages147-160
Publication date2006-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of democracy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1045-5736 • E-ISSN: 1086-3214
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/jod.2006.0021
OpenAlexW1980340138
LanguageEN
Citations received11

The 2005 parliamentary elections were a step back for Azerbaijan compared not only with the beginning of the post-Soviet era, but even with the parliament of the first "oil-boom" era a century ago. Yet as frustrating as the fraudulent elections were, they also furnished grounds for hope. For civil society, the democratic opposition, and the Azerbaijani people showed themselves capable of carrying on a tradition of peaceful dissent whose roots go back to pre-Soviet days. Opening up political space for that democracy-friendly dynamism—and not turning out sharper technocrats to serve authoritarian rulers—is the key to a better future for Azerbaijan

Authoritarianism · Blueprint · Boom · Civil society · Democracy · Development economics · Dissent · Dynamism · Economics · Opposition (politics · Parliament · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Stalemate · Technocracy · Engineering · Law · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics

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