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Beyond Vote Rigging: Common Patterns in Electoral Malpractices in De-Democratizing Regimes

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Szymański A., Ufel W.

Polish Political Science Yearbook

2018

vol. 4 (47)

593-617

For the past decade in many countries in Europe and its close neighborhood we have observed different types of processes which can be named as “de-democratization”. The aim of the article is to analyze the state of elections as the crucial democratic institution which fairness and competitiveness have a substantial impact on the political regime. While Turkey as a “role model” for our analysis remains a main focus of the article, three European countries were selected for a comparison based on their relative similarity to Turkey – Hungary, Macedonia (FYROM) and Serbia. The following questions are posed: Are elections in these countries free, fair and competitive? Can some types of electoral malpractice and irregularities be identified? How does the state of elections in terms of their fairness and competitiveness influence the political regime? The main hypothesis is that in the analyzed countries elections competitiveness limited by incumbents can become a factor deciding about the change within the political regime in the long run (loss of democratic quality) and also change the regime (to a less democratic one).

Alternacja systemowa. „Dobra zmiana” w perspektywie socjologii sfery publicznej

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Szczegóła L., Kwiatkowski M.

Studia Socjologiczne

2017

issue 4(227)

49-71

Zmiany w Polsce po wyborach w 2015 roku są przedmiotem licznych komentarzy. Wielu autorów interpretuje je w kategoriach „demontażu” demokracji, osłabienia ustrojowych i kulturowych fundamentów systemu politycznego kształtowanego w Polsce po 1989 roku. W aparaturze pojęciowej nauk społecznych brakuje terminologii pozwalającej w sposób adekwatny opisywać obserwowany proces. Ma on cechy „zwrotu”, jest próbą kompleksowej reorientacji stylu działania państwa oraz projektującej go filozofii. Artykuł zawiera propozycję analizy tego procesu jako „alternacji systemowej”. Termin ten odnosimy do sytuacji, gdy naturalna w realiach demokracji alternacja władzy stanowi początek sekwencji działań i decyzji mających status ewolucyjnej zmiany reguł funkcjonowania systemu politycznego. Współcześnie obserwujemy co najmniej trzy takie przypadki: Polska, Węgry i Turcja. Ten kontekst, wraz z jego wieloma historycznymi analogiami, kieruje uwagę w stronę poszukiwania prawidłowości procesów dedemokratyzacji (Huntington 1995; Tilly 2008), autorytarnych zwrotów przeprowadzanych w ramach systemu demokratycznego oraz przy wykorzystaniu jego procedur.

Phenomena and processes that emerged in Poland after the elections in 2015 are the subject of numerous comments. Many authors interpret them in terms of “dismantling” of democracy and weakening the political and cultural foundations of the political system shaped in Poland after 1989. The conceptual apparatus of social science is missing the terminology that would allow allowing to adequately describe the observed change. It features a “turn”, it is an attempt of comprehensive reorientation of the style of the state and its design philosophy .The article presents a proposal for the analysis of this process as a “systemic alternation.” We use this term to refer to a situation in which an alternation of power, which would be natural in democratic realities, constitutes a beginning of a sequence of actions and decisions with the status of evolutionary change of the rules of the political system. Today we observe at least three such cases: Poland, Hungary, and Turkey. This context, together with its many historical analogies, directs attention toward the search for the logics of the processes de-democratization (Huntington 1995; Tilly 2008), authoritarian turns carried out within the democratic system and using its procedures.

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Beyond Vote Rigging: Common Patterns in Electoral Malpractices in De-Democratizing Regimes

Alternacja systemowa. „Dobra zmiana” w perspektywie socjologii sfery publicznej