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How to Rig an Election

By: Nic Cheeseman, Brian Klaas
Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
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Contrary to what is commonly believed, authoritarian leaders who agree to hold elections are generally able to remain in power longer than autocrats who refuse to allow the populace to vote. In this engaging and provocative audiobook, Nic Cheeseman and Brian Klaas expose the limitations of national elections as a means of promoting democratization and reveal the six essential strategies that dictators use to undermine the electoral process in order to guarantee victory for themselves.

Based on their firsthand experiences as election watchers and their hundreds of interviews with presidents, prime ministers, diplomats, election officials, and conspirators, Cheeseman and Klaas document instances of election rigging from Argentina to Zimbabwe, including notable examples from Brazil, India, Nigeria, Russia, and the United States - touching on the 2016 election.

This eye-opening study offers a sobering overview of corrupted professional politics, while providing fertile intellectual ground for the development of new solutions for protecting democracy from authoritarian subversion.
©2018 Nicholas Cheeseman and Brian Klaas (P)2018 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
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  • Categories: History
21st Century Corruption & Misconduct Elections & Political Process Political Science Politics & Government United States Argentina Imperialism
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I heard about this book on a radio programand and it sounded both entertaining and informative. The reality is very different, it reads like a dry academic treatise, not helped in any way by the narrator's dry monotonous delivery. Very disappointing!

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