{"id":464,"date":"2012-12-19T16:25:33","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T00:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/politika\/?p=464"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:10:20","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:10:20","slug":"on-elections-in-non-democratic-regimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/2012\/12\/19\/on-elections-in-non-democratic-regimes\/","title":{"rendered":"On Elections in Non-Democratic Regimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My thesis student is starting her second semester, writing a thesis on why elections are so frequent in non-democratic, autocratic regimes.<\/p>\n<p>While the following information may make her feel like her thesis has already been written, that&#8217;s never the case! \u00a0And it&#8217;s helpful that such a large number of articles and commentaries have been come out on just this topic in the last few months.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.cambridge.org\/action\/displayIssue?iid=8783099\"><em>Perspectives on Politics<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(gated) has a number of articles on elections in autocracies, including:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>Levitsky and Way on how ruling parties use elections to channel internal party struggles and maintain their hold on power;<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Junisbal on contested elections, privatization, and post-soviet regimes<\/li>\n<li>Weyland on the post-Arab spring regimes<\/li>\n<li>A review essay by Mainwaring on elections in Chavez&#8217;s Venezuela<\/li>\n<li>Stoner on elections in Russia<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/themonkeycage.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/14\/what-do-legislatures-in-authoritarian-regimes-do\">Monkey Cage blog<\/a> features a set of contributions from distinguished scholars on the role of elected legislatures in autocratic regimes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My thesis student is starting her second semester, writing a thesis on why elections are so frequent in non-democratic, autocratic regimes. While the following information may make her feel like her thesis has already been written, that&#8217;s never the case! &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/2012\/12\/19\/on-elections-in-non-democratic-regimes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-paul-gronke","category-voting-and-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions\/533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}