Voting in a Hybrid Regime

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-7

3. What Is a Hybrid Regime?

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   Pages 9-19

4. Bangladesh: From an Electoral Democracy to a Hybrid Regime (1991–2018)

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   Pages 21-31

5. Manufacturing a Climate of Fear

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6. Does Election Matter in a Hybrid Regime?

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7. The Mechanism of Manipulation

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8. The Election Day: Fear, Exclusion, and Persecution Come Together

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   Pages 69-81

9. Election Results: A Victory Too Big to Believe?

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10. Mutation of Hybrid Regime and Quo Vadis Bangladesh

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11. Back Matter

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This Pivot explores the mechanism of election manipulation in ostensibly democratic but essentially authoritarian systems called the hybrid regime, using the 2018 parliamentary elections in Bangladesh as an example. The 2018 election has delivered an unprecedented victory to the incumbent Bangladesh Awami League. Elections pose serious dilemmas for the leaders of hybrid regimes. While contested elections bolster their claims of democracy and augment their legitimacy, they can also threaten the status quo. Faced with the challenge, the incumbents tend to hold stage-managed elections. This book offers incisive examination of Bangladesh’s political environment, rigorous scrutiny of the roles of state institutions including the law enforcing agencies, and meticulous analysis of election results. It also fills in a gap in the extant hybrid regime literature which seldom explores the strategies of engineered elections.




                                    

• Democratization in Bangladesh
• Hybrid Regimes
• Authoritarianism
• Elections in South Asia
• Regime Transformation
• Political Parties and Elections
• Legitimacy and Elections
• Regime Transformation in Bangladesh
• Regime Transformation in South Asia
• Authoritarianism in South Asia
• Hybrid Regimes in South Asia
• Democratization in South Asia
• democracy

• Politics and Government, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, USA

  Ali Riaz

Ali Riaz is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Illinois State University, USA. He also holds the Thomas E Eimermann Professorship. Riaz previously worked as a Broadcast Journalist at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in London and served as a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at Washington D.C. His publications include Bangladesh: A Political History since Independence (2016).

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