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Even subtle actions that many fear are the dominant mode of contemporary authoritarianism and backsliding typically are reflected in election results.
“Even the types of subtle actions that many fear are the dominant mode of contemporary authoritarianism and backsliding (Guriev and Treisman 2020; Luo and Przeworski 2019; Przeworski 2019) typically are reflected in election results.”
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- Authors
- Guriev, S., & Treisman, D.
- Affiliations
- Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (FR)
- National Bureau of Economic Research (US)
- Corresponding author
- Guriev, Sergei
- Venue
- Journal of Public Economics
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2020-06
- Volume
- 186
- Pages
- 104158
- ISSN
- 0047-2727 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2998692903
- Cited by
- 205
- References
- 82
- Citations by year
- 2026: 29 · 2025: 55 · 2024: 34 · 2023: 19 · 2022: 40 · 2021: 21 · 2020: 5 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 1
- FWCI
- 33.20
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Public Economics (acceptedVersion)
- SSRN Electronic Journal (acceptedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Political Conflict and Governance
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Media Influence and Politics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Political Theory and Democracy
- Keywords
- state propaganda, independent media, elite co-optation, political repression, regime change, soft authoritarianism, political modernization, democratic transition
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