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dc.contributor.authorFumagalli, Matteo
dc.contributor.authorTurmanidze, Koba
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-17T00:34:16Z
dc.date.available2019-02-17T00:34:16Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier251040069
dc.identifierc0f5a661-caed-4b71-8f15-66c36f570fb4
dc.identifier85043986497
dc.identifier.citationFumagalli , M & Turmanidze , K 2017 , ' Taking partly free voters seriously : autocratic response to voter preferences in Armenia and Georgia ' , Caucasus Survey , vol. 5 , no. 3 , pp. 199-215 . https://doi.org/10.1080/23761199.2017.1342369en
dc.identifier.issn2376-1199
dc.identifier.otherRIS: urn:7B08E9F1C004A7433FF79CF99F58E377
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-1451-2088/work/36697391
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/17081
dc.descriptionThis work was supported by a grant from the Academic Swiss Caucasus Net.en
dc.description.abstractDo voters matter in competitive authoritarian regimes and, if so, how? Do their preferences make any difference in the way in which the regime conceives policies and goes about policy-making? In this article we show that they do, and that incumbents take them seriously. Crucially, the way the regime responds to policy demand determines their durability in office. In this article we explain why, despite strong similarities, the political regime ruling Armenia remained stable over the years (from the mid-1990s), whereas the one in Georgia has been unseated on two occasions (2003-2004 and 2012-2013). Evidence confirms that policy-making and the voters' perceptions thereof also play an important role in determining whether a regime collapses or survives. The incumbents collect information on voter preferences, and devise policies in response to them. Policy-making thus matters and is extremely consequential. Paradoxically, however, policy-making makes a difference in counter-intuitive ways. The article concludes that a regime which refrains from making grand promises, or blatantly contradictory or unrealistic ones, has greater chances of surviving than those that set out to transform society, like Saakashvili's Georgia. Ultimately, such policies backfire on those who launched them.
dc.format.extent17
dc.format.extent965438
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofCaucasus Surveyen
dc.subjectCompetitive authoritarianismen
dc.subjectRegime stabilityen
dc.subjectSouth Caucasusen
dc.subjectArmeniaen
dc.subjectGeorgiaen
dc.subjectJZ International relationsen
dc.subjectJ Political Scienceen
dc.subject3rd-DASen
dc.subject.lccJZen
dc.subject.lccJen
dc.titleTaking partly free voters seriously : autocratic response to voter preferences in Armenia and Georgiaen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of International Relationsen
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/23761199.2017.1342369
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2019-02-17


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