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Accepted Paper:
Pakistan 2013: on the road to consolidation?
Katharine Adeney
(University of Nottingham)
Paper short abstract:
The 2013 elections in Pakistan marked the transition from one freely elected government to another. How do we best categorise (and therefore understand) political developments in Pakistan? Is it more appropriate to define it as a hybrid case of democracy or as a ‘diminished subtype’?
Paper long abstract:
Pakistan has had a chequered democratic history but its recently held elections marked the transition from one freely elected government to another. How do we best categorise (and therefore understand) political developments in Pakistan since 2008? Is it more appropriate to define it as a hybrid case of democracy or as a 'diminished subtype'? Scholars have identified several diminished subtypes of democracy. Do any of these subtypes increase our understanding of the nature of democracy (or authoritarianism) in Pakistan?
Panel
P49
Elections and democratic transition in South Asia
Session 1