Publiseringsstøtte til boka 'Inclusive autocracy: Political decentralization without democratization'

Samandrag av boka: In the wake of decentralization reforms, several democratizing states across the world have introduced legislation that provide for subnational elections. This does not mean, however, that subnational elections in these countries are all of a certain quality or are organized according to legislation on a regular basis. On the contrary, there is a great variation in both their quality and stability. While the literature on decentralization reforms is large, there have been few attempts to develop conceptual and methodological tools for comparing subnational elections across democratizing states. Consequently, we do not really have a suitable tool that can help us evaluate the standard of subnational elections and take account of the variation. The purpose of this book is therefore to provide a typology that can be used to assess sub-national elections quality across cases, aiding us in building theories on the causes and consequences of political decentralization. The book presents cases from Africa, a continent including a great variety with regard to subnational elections.