Behind the Facade

Behind the FacadeExplores why authoritarian regimes bother to hold elections. Behind the Faade examines the question of why authoritarian regimes in Southeast Asia bother holding elections. Using comprehensive case studies of Cambodia, Myanmar, and Singapore, Lee Morgenbesser argues that elections allow authoritarian regimes to collect information, pursue legitimacy, manage political elites, and sustain neopatrimonial domination. He demonstrates how these functions

the role of context in their current use

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sustained close reading of Russian-language online media accounts of the 2004 Beslan school siege

Offers a comprehensive overview of the field of ferroelastic materials

his career cut short by an injury

This book applies a multi-method approach including Qualitative Comparative Analysis to highlight their heterogeneous economic development trajectories and to compare them to other major oil exporters

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