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Electoral Success of Independents under Authoritarianism: Evidence from Russia’s Local Elections, 2014–2018
Problems of Post-Communism. 2022. Vol. 69. No. 3. P. 270-281.
Tkacheva T., Turchenko M.
How are candidates without official party affiliation able to succeed in authoritarian elections? We analyzed 1,101 independents who took part in city council elections in Russia’s regional capitals between 2014 and 2018. We found that independent candidates’ electoral fortunes depended both on their personal resources enabling them to attract voters’ support and pre-electoral deals with the regime. We also discovered that the chances of being elected were higher for those formally independent candidates who were the regime’s hidden representatives. For the latter group, the chances to win the race were boosted mostly by pre-electoral deals, rather than their personal resources.
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