Electoral authoritarianism and the problem of legitimacy in different political systems

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While the electoral process is an essential feature of democratic systems and a measure of its legitimacy, it is not, in itself, an adequate indicator of the democracy of political systems. It can be one of the tools of institutionalization of these regimes, Authoritarianism ". Thus, the authoritarian elections under these models are a mechanism to reduce the internal and external pressures that call for democratic transformation in systems that are far from the citizen, especially the degree of influence of external factors in supporting electoral authoritarianism varies from case to case depending on the different strategies of international actors and the nature of internal conditions and factors in countries Target.

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