In countries where citizens have strong grievances against the regime, attempts to address
these grievances in the course of daily life are likely to entail high costs coupled with very …

The sight of thousands of people demonstrating for clean elections and an end to corrupt
postcommunist regimes led many observers to declare that the so-called color revolutions …

The Gilded Age has been popularly linked with political corruption ever since it acquired its
name, redolent of fraud and artifice, from the title of the 1873 novel by Mark TWain and …

American voters are increasingly aware that the mechanics of elections matter. The conduct
of elections--how eligible voters make it onto the voter rolls, how voters cast their ballots, and …

Way is correct that structural factors make competitive regimes more or less vulnerable, but
he ignores the durability of even very weak regimes. In the color revolutions, defeat occurred …

Elections ought in theory to go a long way toward making democracy'work', but in many
contexts, they fail to embody democratic ideals because they are affected by electoral …

This article presents a new explanation of the widespread occurrence of cycles of protest in
electoral autocracies–the most common type of authoritarian regime in the world today …

Stuffing the Ballot Box is a pioneering study of electoral fraud and reform. It focuses on Costa
Rica, a country where parties gradually transformed a fraud-ridden political system into one …

The overthrow of Slobodan Milosevid in Serbia's so-called October Revolution four years
ago was briefly celebrated by the international press, and it also received extensive attention …

Since 1999, the post-Communist states have seen a series of attempts to overthrow
semiauthoritarian governments, with the successful attempts known as the “colored …