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7 - Conclusions and Implications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 November 2021

Aleksandar Matovski
Aleksandar Matovski
Affiliation:
Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California
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Summary

Chapter 7 summarizes the book’s findings and discusses its implications. It underlines the most essential limitation of the appeal of electoral authoritarianism: these regimes become superfluous both when they succeed and when they fail to deliver stability. To maintain popular consent, electoral autocracies must therefore manufacture the types of crises that justify their existence. This paradoxical dynamic has profound implications for these regimes' domestic and international behavior, as recently demonstrated by the aggressive posture of electoral autocracies from across the globe, ranging from Vladimir Putin’s Russia through Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Turkey to the Philippines under Rodrigo Duterte.

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small-scale ideologyprocedural legitimacyperformance floor and ceiling effectsdiversionary conflicts“gambling for survival,” stabilocracy“war on terror,” authoritarian diffusion“plebiscite of silence,” vulnerability to mass protests
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Crises, Mass Opinion, and the Rise of Electoral Authoritarianism
 , pp. 241 - 266
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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