How to Rig an Election

  • How to Rig an Election
    By Nic Cheeseman, Brian Klaas

    In this engaging and provocative book, Nic Cheeseman and Brian Klaas expose the limitations of national elections as a means of promoting democratization, and reveal the six essential strategies that dictators use to undermine the electoral ...

  • How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative
    By Allen Raymond, Ian Spiegelman

    An insider's account of the Republican election machine reveals the practices of libel, spin, and misrepresentation that have affected campaign outcomes throughout the past decade, and traces how the author landed in federal prison for ...

  • How to Rig an Election
    By Nic Cheeseman, Brian Klaas

    See, for example, Ewan Harrison and Sara McLaughlin Mitchell (2013), The Triumph of Democracy and the Eclipse of the West (New York: Palgrave Macmillan), pp. 75–97. For the classic text that named the 'third wave' see Samuel P.

  • How to Rig an Election: Tricks Despots Play
    By Nic Cheeseman, Brian Klaas

    In How to Rig an Election, Nic Cheeseman and Brian Klaas show how elections enable authoritarian leaders to hold on to power, revealing the reasons behind this seeming paradox. They...

  • How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative
    By Allen Raymond

    A completely original tale of the disillusioning of a man who enters politics with no illusions, How to Rig an Election is a brilliant and hilarious exposé of how the contemporary political game is really played.