Larry Jay Diamond

Marc F. Plattner

Andreas Schedler

This text states that democratic governments must be accountable to the electorate; but they must also be subject to restraint and oversight by other public agencies. The state must control itself. This text explores how new democracies can achieve this goal.

Power and Accountability in New Democracies

The Self-restraining State

This volume offers a major new theory of authoritarian politics. It studies regime struggles between government and opposition under electoral authoritarianism and argues that autocracies suffer from institutional uncertainties.

Andreas Schedler

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