Extending contestation: opposition party strength and dissenting civil society engagement with autocratic elections

The Single-Party Dictator’s Dilemma: Information in Elections without Opposition

The literature on authoritarian institutions points to nationwide elections as a mechanism for learning about the preferences of citizens. In using elections in this way, however, authoritarians face a trade-off between gathering reliable information and guaranteeing electoral victory. In this article, we explore how single-party regimes manage this trade-off and the particular types of informa...

Retrospective voting and party support at elections: credit and blame for government and opposition

Retrospective voting is arguably one of the most important mechanisms of representative democracy, and whether or not the public holds the government accountable for its policy performance has been extensively studied. In this paper, we test whether retrospective voting extends to parties in the opposition, that is whether and how parties' past performance evaluations affect their vote, regardl...

Political opposition in civil society . An analysis of the interactions of secular and religious associations in

Territorial contestation and repressive violence in civil war

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THE ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN ELECTIONS The KwaZulu-Natal Democracy and Elections Forum – reducing conflict dynamics and promoting peace1

The role of civil society in elections often takes the form of support for the institutional processes of a democratic election as well as the more substantive development of a democratic electorate. Civil society does, however, have a role to play in reducing election-related conflict dynamics and promoting a peaceful electoral environment. This paper examines the role of the KwaZulu-Natal Dem...