To Rig the Rules or To Break the Rules:

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" To Rig the Rules or To Break the Rules: "
Noh, Yuree Geddes, Barbara

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	897137
Doc. No	:	TL98v1w6d0
Main Entry	:	Austin, James Paul
Title & Author	:	To Rig the Rules or To Break the Rules:\ Noh, YureeGeddes, Barbara
Date	:	2018
student score	:	2018
Abstract	:	Why do some authoritarian leaders use extensive fraud to control election results whereas others do not? In my dissertation, I identify the conditions under which dictators choose to resort to fraud or not. I argue the importance of social cohesion and citizen networks that facilitate the spread of information regarding rigged elections among citizens. Informed citizens are more likely to solve collective action porblems and mobilize themselves against against the regime. Incumbent elites fear triggering the kinds of popular uprisings that sometimes overthrow dictatorships. Consequently, they avoid using outright fraud in places where citizens are densely enmeshed in civil society associations. I test my argument using cross-national and subnational empirical evidence in addition to case studies of Algeria and Kuwait. My results also show that those autocrats who are especially dependent foreign support rely on rule manipulation that is less visible. I demonstrate that fraud accounts are negatively correlated with election rule changes, suggesting that they operate as partial substitutes in the incumbent's toolkit.
Added Entry	:	Noh, Yuree
Added Entry	:	UCLA