Asymmetric electoral authoritarianism? The case of the 2021 elections in Ethiopia

IF 1.4 3区社会学 Q1 AREA STUDIES

Review of African Political Economy Pub Date : 2022-03-10 DOI:10.1080/03056244.2022.2037540

T. Lyons, Aly Verjee

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Abstract

SUMMARY Ethiopia’s 2021 elections have been overshadowed by the brutal civil war that has raged since November 2020. The elections may not have been competitive but they reveal important dynamics about institutions and the competition for power in Africa’s second most populous state. These were the first elections under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who came to power in 2018 insisting that legitimacy comes through elections. By 2021, however, repression and boycotts resulted in the ruling party winning 97% of the seats where voting took place. Beneath this national result were patterns of asymmetric electoral authoritarianism. Some regions experienced heavy-handed political domination and voting with only the ruling party competing. Others had circumscribed political space and opportunities for the opposition to win votes. Local dynamics challenge assessments that only look at the national outcome, missing important differences between types of electoral authoritarianism.

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不对称的选举威权主义?以2021年埃塞俄比亚选举为例

埃塞俄比亚2021年的选举被自2020年11月以来肆虐的残酷内战蒙上了阴影。选举可能不是竞争激烈的，但它们揭示了非洲人口第二大国的制度和权力竞争的重要动态。这是总理阿比·艾哈迈德(Abiy Ahmed)执政以来的首次选举，他于2018年上台，坚称合法性来自选举。然而，到2021年，镇压和抵制导致执政党赢得了97%的投票席位。在这一全国性结果的背后，是不对称的选举威权主义模式。一些地区经历了严厉的政治统治，只有执政党参与投票。其他人则限制了反对派赢得选票的政治空间和机会。地方动态挑战了只看国家结果的评估，而忽略了不同类型的选举威权主义之间的重要差异。

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Review of African Political Economy Multiple-

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期刊介绍： The Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE) is a refereed journal committed to encouraging high quality research and fostering excellence in the understanding of African political economy. Published quarterly by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group for the ROAPE international collective it has since 1974 provided radical analysis of trends and issues in Africa. It has paid particular attention to the political economy of inequality, exploitation and oppression, whether driven by global forces or local ones (such as class, race, community and gender), and to materialist interpretations of change in Africa. It has sustained a critical analysis of the nature of power and the state in Africa.