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How to understand Pakistan’s hybrid regime: the importance of a multidimensional continuum

Adeney, Katharine

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Pakistan has had a chequered democratic history but elections in 2013 marked a second turnover in power, and the first transition in Pakistan’s history from one freely elected government to another. How do we best categorize (and therefore understand) political developments in Pakistan? Is it now safe to categorize it as an electoral democracy or is it still a hybrid case of democracy? Using the Pakistani case as an example, this article argues that hybrid regimes deserve consideration as a separate case (rather than as a diminished sub type of democracy or authoritarianism), but must be categorised along a multidimensional continuum to understand the dynamics of power within the political system.

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Adeney, K. (in press). How to understand Pakistan’s hybrid regime: the importance of a multidimensional continuum. Democratization, 24(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2015.1110574

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Sep 24, 2015
Online Publication Date Nov 11, 2015
Deposit Date Sep 24, 2015
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Democratization
Print ISSN 1351-0347
Electronic ISSN 1743-890X
Publisher Routledge
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 24
Issue 1
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2015.1110574
Keywords Pakistan, hybrid regimes, civil-military relations, democratization, competitiveness, civil liberties, reserved domains
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/767103
Publisher URL http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13510347.2015.1110574
Additional Information This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Democratization on 11/11/2015, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13510347.2015.1110574.

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