{"product_id":"popular-dictatorships-aleksandar-matovski-9781316517802","title":"Popular Dictatorships: Crises, Mass Opinion, and the Rise of Electoral Authoritarianism","description":"Electoral autocracies - regimes that adopt democratic institutions but subvert them to rule as dictatorships - have become the most widespread, resilient and malignant non-democracies today. They have consistently ruled over a third of the countries in the world, including geopolitically significant states like Russia, Turkey, Venezuela, Egypt, Indonesia, Nigeria and Pakistan. Challenging conventional wisdom, Popular Dictators shows that the success of electoral authoritarianism is not due to these regimes' superior capacity to repress, bribe, brainwash and manipulate their societies into submission, but is actually a product of their genuine popular appeal in countries experiencing deep political, economic and security crises. Promising efficient, strong-armed rule tempered by popular accountability, elected strongmen attract mass support in societies traumatized by turmoil, dysfunction and injustice, allowing them to rule through the ballot box. Popular Dictators argues that this crisis legitimation strategy makes electoral authoritarianism the most significant threat to global peace and democracy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Aleksandar Matovski\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1316517802\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781316517802\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/25\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 316\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.60w x 0.80d","brand":"Aleksandar Matovski","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43995395653887,"sku":"9781316517802","price":44.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e7ba838a-28fb-4215-a68b-951a0e0233ff.jpg?v=1683335584","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/popular-dictatorships-aleksandar-matovski-9781316517802","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}