1st Edition

Authoritarian Stability in the South Caucasus Voting preferences, autocratic responses and regime stability in Armenia and Georgia

Edited By Matteo Fumagalli, Koba Turmanidze Copyright 2018
138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

In recent years, competitive authoritarianism has become an increasingly common form of non-democratic politics. What is the relationship between the demand for particular public policies and a regime’s durability in office in such cases? How does policy-making interact with organizational power, the willingness to resort to coercion and patronage politics in countries home to democratic-looking... Read more

1. Taking partly free voters seriously: autocratic response to voter preferences in Armenia and Georgia

Matteo Fumagalli and Koba Turmanidze

2. The self-defeating game: how state capacity and policy choice affect political survival

Dustin Gilbreath and Koba Turmanidze

3. Elections and election fraud in Georgia and Armenia

Dustin Gilbreath and Sona Balasanyan

4. Retrospective voting in Georgia: does the government’s past performance matter?

Giorgi Babunashvili

5. Promises, lies and the accountability trap. Evidence from a survey experiment in Armenia and Georgia

Koba Turmanidze

6. Balancing the three pillars of stability in Armenia and Georgia

Rati Shubladze and Tsisana Khundadze

Biography

Matteo Fumagalli is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of St Andrews, UK

Koba Turmanidze is Director of the Caucasus Resource Research Centre in Tbilisi, Georgia