After the gradual slowing down of the "third wave of democratization," electoral authoritarianism is rapidly emerging as a dominant form of contemporary autocracy. Political parties play a key role within the political and institutional structures of electoral autocracies. Pro-regime parties provide the dictatorial executive with electoral and legislative tools of sustaining power. At the same time, permitted opposition parties, while normally incapable of challenging the regime, are important for regime sustainability because they perform such vital functions as co-opting actual or potential opposition groups, facilitating power-sharing, and mobilizing electoral participation. The interactions among the dominant parties and the permitted opposition parties, if displaying sustainable cross-temporal patterns, constitute authoritarian party systems. Authoritarian Party Systems provides a theoretical discussion of electoral authoritarianism with special reference to authoritarian party systems; a methodological overview of party system research with special reference to the problems caused by the authoritarian nature of the observed party systems; a comprehensive cross-regional and historical overview of authoritarian party systems; a quantitative analysis of their structural characteristics, including fragmentation, party system format, volatility, and nationalization; and in-depth discussions of the political regime determinants of authoritarian party systems and of the interplay between party systems and other components of the authoritarian institutional order. Quantitative analysis has been performed on an original database comprising cases of party-structured authoritarian regimes between 1945–2019. This content of the book is illustrated by case studies drawn from across the spectrum of contemporary authoritarian regimes.
Author(s): Grigorii V. Golosov
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 296
City: London
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Defining Authoritarian Party Systems
Authoritarianism: Substantive Considerations
Authoritarianism: Operational Definition
Party Systems
Chapter 3 The World of Authoritarian Party Systems
Historical Antecedents
Early Contemporary Cases
The Authoritarian Party Systems of the Western Hemisphere
The Authoritarian Party Systems of Asia
The Authoritarian Party Systems of Africa
The Authoritarian Party Systems of Post-Communist Countries
Chapter 4 The Properties of Authoritarian Party Systems
Party System Fragmentation
Party System Format
Party System Volatility
Party System Nationalization
Chapter 5 Political Regimes and Authoritarian Party Systems
Authoritarian Political Regimes and Regime Genomes
Assigning Party Systems to Regime Genome Categories
Mode of Power Acquisition
Party Legacies
Empirical Methods
Empirical Findings
Chapter 6 Authoritarian Party Systems, Executive–Legislative Relations, and Federalism
Types of Executive–Legislative Relations
Executive–Legislative Relations and the Properties of Authoritarian Party Systems
Federalism and the Properties of Authoritarian Party Systems
Chapter 7 Authoritarian Party Systems and Electoral Systems
Electoral Systems and Their Effects
Electoral Systems and the Properties of Authoritarian Party Systems
Empirical Findings
Chapter 8 The Destinations of Authoritarian Party Systems
The Legacies of Authoritarian Party Systems
The Present and Future of Authoritarian Party Systems
Conclusion
List of the Names of Parties and Political Organizations in Native Languages
References
Index
