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- Levitsky and Way define competitive authoritarian systems as civilian regimes in which formal democratic institutions exist and are widely viewed as the primary means of gaining power, but in which incumbents’ abuse of the state places them at a significant advantage vis-à-vis their opponents.
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Read the full essay here. Competitive authoritarianism—in which the coexistence of meaningful democratic institutions and serious incumbent abuse yields electoral competition that is real but unfair—is alive and well, nearly two decades after the concept was introduced in the Journal of Democracy.
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Defining Competitive Authoritarianism. This article examines one particular type of “hybrid” regime: com-petitive authoritarianism. In competitive authoritarian regimes, formal democratic institutions are widely viewed as the principal means of ob-taining and exercising political authority.
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Competitive authoritarian regimes. Competitive Authoritarian Regimes (or Competitive Authoritarianism) is a subtype of Authoritarianism and of the wider Hybrid Regime regime type. This regime type was created to encapsulate states that contained formal democratic institutions that rulers viewed as the principal means of obtaining and exercising ...
The article begins by noting three conceptual challenges competitive authori-tarianism creates for scholarship: the definition of an uneven playing field, the use of a midrange definitional bar for democracy, and the identification of features of authoritarianism.
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Apr 17, 2018 · By disaggregating political systems into electoral institutions, surrounding rights and freedoms, constitutionalism, and the rule of law, this article complicates the binary distinction between a midrange definition of democracy and competitive authoritarianism.
Other theorists say that classifying illiberal democracy as democratic is overly sympathetic to the illiberal regimes and therefore prefer terms such as electoral authoritarianism, competitive authoritarianism, or soft authoritarianism.
