Elections Without Democracy: Thinking About Hybrid Regimes

Issue Date April 2002
Volume 13
Issue 2
Page Numbers 21-35
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Many countries have adopted the form of democracy with little of its substance. This makes the task of classifying regimes more difficult, but also more important.

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Larry Diamond is senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, and founding coeditor of the Journal of Democracy.

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