Dictatorship and the Electoral Vote: Francoism and the Portuguese New State Regime in Comparative Perspective, 1945-1975 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781845199876)

Why do dictatorships have elections? Dictatorship and the Electoral Vote analyses the role of elections in two dictatorships that were born in the Era of Fascism but survived up to the 1970s: the Portuguese New State and Francoism. A comparative study of the electoral vote held by both dictatorships is revealing at many organizational and structural levels. The multiple political interactions involved in elections worldwide have been subject to social science scrutiny but rarely encompass historical context. The analysis of the electoral vote held by Iberian dictatorships is uniquely placed to link the two. The issues to hand include: drawing of electoral rolls; evolution of the number of people allowed to vote; candidate selection processes; propaganda methods; impact on the institutional structure of the regime; the socio-political biographies of the candidates; the electoral turnout and final tally; relationship between the central and peripheral authorities of the state; and
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Author: Carlos Domper Lasus
ISBN-10: 1845199871
ISBN-13: 9781845199876
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/02/2020
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.80d

About the Author

Carlos Domper Lasus is a European PhD scholar in Political History from the Libera Universita Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli (Rome). In 2018 he received Best 2017 Young Researcher Award from the Spanish Association for Contemporary History. His research endeavours have taken him to the Universite de Bourgogne); the Central European University, Budapest; the IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca; Universidad Complutense, Madrid; the University of California, San Diego; and the Instituto de Ciencias Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa.