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Kyle, Brett J.

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Recycling dictators: Ex-authoritarians in new democracies.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Recycling dictators: Ex-authoritarians in new democracies./
Author:	Kyle, Brett J.
Description:	337 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-01(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-01A(E).
Subject:	Political Science, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3594585
ISBN:	9781303391903

Recycling dictators: Ex-authoritarians in new democracies.
Kyle, Brett J.

Recycling dictators: Ex-authoritarians in new democracies. - 337 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-01(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2013.

What explains the presence and performance of former regime leaders in elections for public office after a transition to democracy? This study develops the concept of recycled dictators as the phenomenon of those individuals associated with non-democratic government who enter electoral politics after a transition to democracy. It focuses on candidates associated with the military regimes that immediately preceded the third wave of democratization in 12 countries across Latin America, identifying 67 ex-authoritarian candidacies in presidential contests, with eight of those ending in victory for a former regime official. The study finds that recycled dictators are present at higher rates in cases of lower "democratic continuity"---conditions of less experience with democracy prior to military rule and military replacement of civilian politics with military parties competing under managed democracy. The project establishes the background conditions and causal pathways for recycled dictator presence based on level of democratic continuity and level of threat to former regime actors that structure the four types of recycled dictator competition: (1) Return of democratic representatives; (2) Protest candidacies; (3) Persistence of authoritarian competitors; and (4) Mixed competition. The study challenges the notion that Latin American voters are not committed to democracy, as most ex-regime officials finish with only single-digit vote share. Candidates who achieve +10% of the vote, however, share particular characteristics. The study offers a typology of these successful candidates with three categories: (1) Regime Heir---a candidate who assumes the mantle of the regime in which he served; (2) Rogue Officer---a candidate who led a military uprising with an anti-corruption message and who quickly parlays that message into a political career; and (3) Caudillo Democrat---a candidate who has built a more traditional path to the presidency by holding lower-level public office and constructing a party over time, yet who still runs promising authoritarian solutions to national challenges. The study advances understanding of popular and elite commitment to democracy and contributes a predictive theory on recycled dictators' electoral presence and the intensity of their appeal. The project proposes that the theory is generalizable to ongoing and future transitions across the globe.

ISBN: 9781303391903Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017391
Political Science, General.

Recycling dictators: Ex-authoritarians in new democracies.
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