Voting in a Hybrid Regime Explaining the 2018 Bangladeshi Election /

• Main Author: Riaz, Ali (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Politics of South Asia,
• Subjects: Elections.; Democracy.; Asia-Politics and government.; Electoral Politics.; Asian Politics.

This Pivot explores the mechanism of election manipulation in ostensibly democratic but essentially authoritarian systems called the hybrid regime, using the 2018 parliamentary elections in Bangladesh as an example. The 2018 election has delivered an unprecedented victory to the incumbent Bangladesh...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. What is a Hybrid Regime?
• 3. Bangladesh: From an Electoral Democracy to a Hybrid Regime (1991-2019)
• 4. Manufacturing a Climate of Fear
• 5. Does Election Matter in a Hybrid Regime?
• 6. The Mechanism of Manipulation
• 7. The Election Day: Fear, Exclusion and Persecution Come Together
• 8. Election Results: A Victory Too Big to Believe?
• 9. Mutation of a Hybrid regime and Quo Vadis Bangladesh.