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Elections Without Democracy: Thinking About Hybrid Regimes

2002; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 13; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/jod.2002.0025

1086-3214

Larry Diamond,

Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics

Is Russia a democracy? What about Ukraine, Nigeria, Indonesia, Turkey, or Venezuela? There was a time when these were simple questions of regime classification. But the empirical reality in these countries is a lot messier than it was two decades ago, and so, in a way, is the never-ending dialogue on how to think about and classify regimes.