Resumen de Tilting the Playing Field: The Modular Appeal of Competitive Authoritarianism
In this article I examine the recent elections found in six competitive authoritarian, ‘semi-democratic’ countries: Armenia, Kenya, Venezuela, Malaysia, Cambodia, and Zimbabwe. All of these countries are quite different, however they all produced similar electoral contests with disputed results. Much of the contemporary literature on the topic focuses on the domestic factors that enable these competitive authoritarian regimes to stay in power, however I focus on the global ontology, or the character of the world as it actually is, and how it has proved to be very conducive to this type of political system over the past decade.
