Popular Dictatorships

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• drewda · Apr 7, 2023 · Mentions

  …political scientists have been starting to talk about "electoral authoritarian regimes" — how dictators make use of some amount of popular support, media, and other tools to stay in power. For example "Popular Dictatorships: Crises, Mass Opinion, and the Rise of Electoral Authoritarianism" by Aleksandar Matovski: https://www.amazon.com/Popular-Dictatorships-Opinion-Elector... I'm no expert, but I find this an interesting…

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• scoofy · Jul 19, 2025 · Mentions

  I've read Popular Dictatorships. I'm not naive that they care about public opinion and have "elections." Having unfree and unfair elections is not the same things as having elections in a real sense. Party based FPTP elections are generally…