Life after Dictatorship launches a new research agenda on authoritarian successor parties worldwide. Authoritarian successor parties are parties that emerge from authoritarian regimes, but that operate after a transition to democracy. They are one of the most common but overlooked features of the global democratic landscape. They are major actors in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America, and they have been voted back into office in over one-half of all third-wave democracies. This book presents a new set of terms, definitions, and research questions designed to travel across regions, and presents new data on these parties' prevalence and frequent return to power. With chapters from leading Africanists, Asianists, Europeanists, and Latin Americanists, it asks: why are authoritarian successor parties so common? Why are some more successful than others? And in what ways can they harm - or help - democracy?
Author(s): James Loxton, Scott Mainwaring
Edition: 1
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2018
Language: English
Commentary: TruePDF
Pages: 435
Tags: Dominant-Party Systems: Case Studies; Authoritarianism: Case studies
Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Figures
Tables
Contributors
Preface
Acronyms
Introduction
Appendix I.1 | Authoritarian Successor Parties in the Third Wave of Democracyi
Appendix I.2 | Prominent Authoritarian Successor Parties from the Third Wavei
Part I | Why Do Authoritarian Successor Parties Exist (and Often Win Elections)?
1 | Linkage Strategies of Authoritarian Successor Parties
2 | Authoritarian Successor Parties in South Korea and Taiwan
3 | Personalistic Authoritarian Successor Parties in Latin America
Part II | What Explains Variation in Authoritarian Successor Party Performance?
4 | Victims of Their Own Success
Appendix 4.1 | Coding and Selection Criteria
Appendix 4.2 | List of Communist Successor Parties
5 | Authoritarian Successor Parties in Sub-Saharan Africa
6 | The Survival of Authoritarian Successor Parties in Africa
7 | The Contrasting Trajectories of Brazil’s Two Authoritarian Successor Parties
Part III | What Are the Effects of Authoritarian Successor Parties on Democracy?
8 | Mexico’s PRI
9 | Game for Democracy
10 | Reluctant Democrats
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
