Authoritarian experience and electoral success: the fate of authoritarian diasporans in Kenya

LeBas, Adrienne; Gray, Kyle

doi:10.1080/13510347.2020.1865317

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“…Obfuscation also harms the more sincere elites who may "truly" occupy the ideological space that is now misleadingly claimed by refugees from the old regime. Obfuscation is likely to be associated with exaggerated party-switching that contributes to excessive party fragmentation (Albertus andDeming 2021, LeBas andGray 2021). Ideological obfuscation will almost certainly damage the reputation of the political class and contribute to mistrust in parties.…”

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It’s my party and I’ll lie if I want to: Elite ideological obfuscation in post-authoritarian settings

Zucco,

Power

2024

Party Politics

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This paper examines the origins and evolution of the direita envergonhada (“embarrassed right”) phenomenon, a pattern of ideological obfuscation by right-of-center politicians that was originally identified and documented in post-authoritarian Brazil. Conservative politicians refused to identify themselves as right-wing, defining themselves instead as centrists and placing themselves ideologically to the left of their own political parties. We find that this phenomenon is not restricted to Brazil, but is widespread across Latin America’s Third Wave of democratization. We also find that politicians personally connected to the defunct authoritarian regime were more likely to engage in obfuscation and that, contrary to previous hypotheses, obfuscation has faded in recent times.

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It’s my party and I’ll lie if I want to: Elite ideological obfuscation in post-authoritarian settings

Zucco,

Power

2024

Party Politics

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“…In three of the counties in our study, one political party wins presidential elections with 80% vote shares, wins governorships by more than 20%, and secures at least 60% of county assembly seats. The fourth county does have competitive elections (Nairobi City County), with one party winning just over 50% of votes in presidential, gubernatorial, and county assembly elections (Cheeseman, Kanyinga, and Lynch 2020a; Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission 2017; LeBas and Gray 2021). Voters thus have great difficulty holding elected officials accountable at the county level (Cheeseman, Kanyinga, and Lynch 2020).…”

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Participation, Development, and Accountability: A Survey Experiment on Democratic Decision-Making in Kenya

Touchton

Wampler

2023

Am Polit Sci Rev

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Many governments in semi-democratic regimes have adopted participatory democratic institutions to promote development and accountability. But limited resources, weak civil society, and a history of authoritarian politics make building subnational democratic institutions daunting. Do participatory institutions expand accountability in these environments? We address this question by evaluating citizen decision-making in Kenya’s local participatory processes. We first administered a survey experiment surrounding citizens’ development policy preferences to 9,928 respondents in four Kenyan counties. We then nest this survey experiment in participant observation and over 80 elite interviews. Our conclusions are mixed: respondents readily change their policy preferences to align with the government’s policy actions, which suggests limited prospects for accountability. However, respondents use participatory budgeting venues to question government officials about missing projects, which provides a potential foundation for accountability. Yet, uncompetitive local elections, the absence of independent civil society’s participation, and new program rules are likely to limit democratic accountability.

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Remnants of the ancien régime: renomination and re-election of former members of a demised ruling party in Ukraine

Torikai

2022

Democratization

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Authoritarian experience and electoral success: the fate of authoritarian diasporans in Kenya

Cited by 4 publications

References 29 publications

It’s my party and I’ll lie if I want to: Elite ideological obfuscation in post-authoritarian settings

It’s my party and I’ll lie if I want to: Elite ideological obfuscation in post-authoritarian settings

Participation, Development, and Accountability: A Survey Experiment on Democratic Decision-Making in Kenya

Remnants of the ancien régime: renomination and re-election of former members of a demised ruling party in Ukraine

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