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

Adeney, Katharine

Abstract

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.

Citation

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: Nov 11, 2015
• 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.
• Contract Date: Sep 24, 2015