Voting for Autocracy: Hegemonic Party Survival and its Demise in Mexico (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
This guide offers a concept of the logic of survival of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), one particular of the most resilient autocratic regimes in the twentieth century. An autocratic regime hid behind the facade of elections that have been held with clockwise precision. Even though their end result was completely predictable, elections were not hollow rituals. The PRI produced hundreds of thousands of ordinary citizens vest their interests in the survival of the autocratic regime. Voters could not simply throw the “ras
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Great insights into authoritarian regimes,
Magaloni’s book takes a levelheaded view of authoritarian regimes and how they utilize democratic institutions. She dismisses the idea that elections and political parties are simply fig leafs to give the regime legitimacy. Instead, she provides rational and compelling explanations for why a dictator would actually benefit from establishing democratic institutions. Definitely worth a read for scholars of political institutions and authoritarianism.
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