Election Watch

Issue Date July 2009
Volume 20
Issue 3
Page Numbers 175-179
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Reports on recent elections in Algeria, Ecuador, El Salvador, India, Indonesia, Kuwait, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malawi, Maldives, Micronesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Panama, Slovakia, and South Africa.

Further Reading

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Russian Democracy in Eclipse: What the Elections Tell Us

President Vladimir Putin's lopsided election victory was assisted by an unlevel electoral playing field, but elections still matter in Russia and they will make more difficult the consolidation of authoritarianism.

Volume 27, Issue 4

The Vote in the Philippines: Electing A Strongman

The surprise victory of Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines’ May 2016 presidential election represents a major shift in the liberal-democratic regime established thirty years ago after the “people power” revolution.

Volume 24, Issue 4

Exchange: Confusing Categories, Shifting Targets

Staffan Lindberg replies to Matthijs Bogaards’s critique, finding the latter’s methodology problematic and arguing that the evidence for association between repeated elections and democratization remains strong.