Politics

Political Systems and Issues: Contesting Authoritarianism

Module code: L2088
Level 5
15 credits in spring semester
Teaching method: Lecture, Seminar
Assessment modes: Essay

On this module, you'll examine the dynamics of electoral autocracy, where multiparty elections coexist with autocratic practices. You'll explore how parties organise, communicate, and compete in these contexts while analysing how regimes suppress dissent and opposition movements resist.

Through engagement with primary and secondary sources, you'll investigate cases of electoral autocracy in Africa and beyond, 

Module learning outcomes

• Conceptualise the key actors, activities, circumstances and dynamics of electoral-autocratic contestation
• Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of strategies of electoral-autocratic contestation
• Critically evaluate theories of electoral-autocratic contestation
• Effectively formulate, organise and communicate arguments