Varieties of Subnational Undemocratic Regimes: Evidence from Argentina and Mexico

Giraudy, Agustina

doi:10.1007/s12116-012-9117-4

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“…The literature on sub-national politics however also points to significant heterogeneity in sub-national development and regime types within one national setting and, relatedly, in the propensity of regional and local officials to perpetrate electoral misconduct (Gibson 2013;Giraudy 2013;Kitschelt and Wilkinson 2007;Lankina 2004;Lehoucq and Molina Jiménez 2002;Magaloni, Diaz-Cayeros et al 2007;Stokes 2007;Wahman 2015). Variables related to local socio-economic development (Lehoucq 2003;Lehoucq and Molina Jiménez 2002;Stokes 2007); the degree of fiscal dependence of a locality on the national purse (Gervasoni 2010); regional machine politics (Eisenstadt 2004;Gibson 2013); or media freedom (Birch and Ham 2014), could all affect the probability of manipulations in individual regions, or the likelihood that electoral results are marred with fraud rather than being products of voter choice or strategic voting.…”

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Fabricating votes for Putin: new tests of fraud and electoral manipulations from Russia

Skovoroda

Lankina

2016

Post-Soviet Affairs

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Section: Theoretical Framework and Hypothesesmentioning

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Fabricating votes for Putin: new tests of fraud and electoral manipulations from Russia

Skovoroda

Lankina

2016

Post-Soviet Affairs

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“…The former includes freedom of expression and freedom to participate in political groups, while the latter implies that the government is accountable to the general population. Accountability is ensured through transparency and division of power (Persson et al ., ); the rule of law and non‐discretionary exercise of power are elements of liberal democracy (Giraudy, ). http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9248.12133/suppinfo in the online appendix presents the dimensions of the index, discusses its relation to the theoretical concept of ‘liberal democracy’ and examines possible limitations in this respect…”

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CPSU Legacies and Regional Democracy in Contemporary Russia

Libman¹,

Obydenkova²

2014

Political Studies

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This article investigates the impact of Communist historical legacies on the variation of sub-national regimes in a federal state. It focuses on the Russian Federation and studies the role of sub-national variations of membership rates in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) during the 1970s and 1980s as a predictor of regional democracy in Russia in the 2000s. Using a unique dataset collected by the authors, the article shows that past CPSU membership rates continue to have a significant and negative impact on democracy at the sub-national level. The article also investigates possible mechanisms of this effect and links them to the persistence of Soviet bureaucracies and their role in exercising control over regional economies. These findings contribute to understanding the complex nexus of federalism and sub-national democracy and to the study of the role of communist legacies in democratisation.

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“…However, decentralization alone has been unable to deliver these democratizing outcomes and has resulted, instead, in the development and maintenance of subnational undemocratic practices, combined with recurrent democratic elections (Giraudy 2013;Behrend and Whitehead 2016;Behrend 2011;Cornelius, Eisenstadt, and Hindley 1999;Herrmann 2010;Gervasoni 2010;Gibson 2005). These practices, then, replicate the illiberal democratic pattern observed at the national level.…”

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Loyal to the Executive: The Effect of State Capacity on Local Horizontal Accountability

Ordonez

2020

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The literature suggests that state capacity has a reinforcing effect on democracy. According to this literature, the capacity and usability of the bureaucracy that state capacity entails are essential for the provision of goods and services that help to consolidate and improve democratic regimes. This paper challenges this proposition. It focuses on local democracy and draws on the comparative method to describe and evaluate how bureaucratic capacity and usability can affect a critical component of democracy-the horizontal (or intrastate) oversight on the executive. Contrasting with the literature, this paper argues that, even in democratic regimes, state capacity can discourage accountability agents that are elected through popular vote. As the results show, bureaucracies that are well funded, highly professionalized, and usable give local executives an ample capacity to discourage accountability agents (municipal councils) from holding them accountable. Local bureaucracies with these characteristics can isolate municipal councils from local communities, strip them from autonomous constituent support, and render council members electorally dependent on the mayor. When local bureaucracies lack these characteristics, executives can still manage to influence horizontal accountability by exchanging council members' support for access to municipal resources they can distribute to increase their constituent support. Municipal councils' inclination towards accountability is, however, greater when local bureaucracies are highly capable but not usable. In this case, the local executive lacks influence on council members' relationship with local communities and, therefore, on municipal councils' disposition to hold them accountable.

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Varieties of Subnational Undemocratic Regimes: Evidence from Argentina and Mexico

Cited by 119 publications

References 34 publications

Fabricating votes for Putin: new tests of fraud and electoral manipulations from Russia

Fabricating votes for Putin: new tests of fraud and electoral manipulations from Russia

CPSU Legacies and Regional Democracy in Contemporary Russia

Loyal to the Executive: The Effect of State Capacity on Local Horizontal Accountability

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