How to understand Pakistan’s hybrid regime: the importance of a multidimensional continuum
Pakistan has had a chequered democratic history but elections in 2013 marked a second turnover in power, and the first transition in Pakistan’s history from one freely elected government to another. How do we best categorize (and therefore understand) political developments in Pakistan? Is it now...
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| description | Pakistan has had a chequered democratic history but elections in 2013 marked a second turnover in power, and the first transition in Pakistan’s history from one freely elected government to another. How do we best categorize (and therefore understand) political developments in Pakistan? Is it now safe to categorize it as an electoral democracy or is it still a hybrid case of democracy? Using the Pakistani case as an example, this article argues that hybrid regimes deserve consideration as a separate case (rather than as a diminished sub type of democracy or authoritarianism), but must be categorised along a multidimensional continuum to understand the dynamics of power within the political system. |
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| spelling | nottingham-302332020-05-04T17:23:43Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/30233/ How to understand Pakistan’s hybrid regime: the importance of a multidimensional continuum Adeney, Katharine Pakistan has had a chequered democratic history but elections in 2013 marked a second turnover in power, and the first transition in Pakistan’s history from one freely elected government to another. How do we best categorize (and therefore understand) political developments in Pakistan? Is it now safe to categorize it as an electoral democracy or is it still a hybrid case of democracy? Using the Pakistani case as an example, this article argues that hybrid regimes deserve consideration as a separate case (rather than as a diminished sub type of democracy or authoritarianism), but must be categorised along a multidimensional continuum to understand the dynamics of power within the political system. Taylor & Francis 2015-11-11 Article PeerReviewed Adeney, Katharine (2015) How to understand Pakistan’s hybrid regime: the importance of a multidimensional continuum. Democratization, 24 (1). pp. 119-137. ISSN 1743-890X Pakistan hybrid regimes civil-military relations democratization competitiveness civil liberties reserved domains http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13510347.2015.1110574 doi:10.1080/13510347.2015.1110574 doi:10.1080/13510347.2015.1110574 |
| spellingShingle | Pakistan hybrid regimes civil-military relations democratization competitiveness civil liberties reserved domains Adeney, Katharine How to understand Pakistan’s hybrid regime: the importance of a multidimensional continuum |
| title | How to understand Pakistan’s hybrid regime: the importance of a multidimensional continuum |
| title_full | How to understand Pakistan’s hybrid regime: the importance of a multidimensional continuum |
| title_fullStr | How to understand Pakistan’s hybrid regime: the importance of a multidimensional continuum |
| title_full_unstemmed | How to understand Pakistan’s hybrid regime: the importance of a multidimensional continuum |
| title_short | How to understand Pakistan’s hybrid regime: the importance of a multidimensional continuum |
| title_sort | how to understand pakistan’s hybrid regime: the importance of a multidimensional continuum |
| topic | Pakistan hybrid regimes civil-military relations democratization competitiveness civil liberties reserved domains |
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