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Book SynopsisDictatorship is not what it was once. Military and single-party regimes have been withering away. Today, most dictators organize multiparty elections. The Politics of Uncertainty presents an analytical framework and empirical data that allow us to understand the distinctive political dynamics of these new electoral authoritarian regimes. It argues that all autocracies suffer from institutional uncertainties: their hold on power is never secure. They also suffer from informational uncertainties: they can never know for sure how secure they are. The author identifies these uncertainties as the central axes of regimes conflicts under dictatorship. The politics of uncertainty comprises the struggle between rulers and dissidents over these twin uncertainties. In electoral autocracies, it unfolds primarily as competition over electoral uncertainty. The study of electoral authoritarianism is a vibrant growth industry in political science and this book is required reading for all students of e
Trade ReviewNo one else could have written this book...The book is ambitious in its scope, conceptually innovative, and theoretically rich...It was a pleasure to read this masterful book. * Kenneth F. Greene, Política y Gobierno *
The Politics of Uncertainty was like music to my brain. Page after page delivered resonant lessons, findings, patterns, and arguments... This is quite simply the best book that we now have on the decisively non-democratic character of these so-called 'hybrid' authoritarian regimes. * Dan Slater, Política y Gobierno *
Table of ContentsI: ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK ; II: EMPIRICAL EXPLORATIONS
