Nic Cheeseman and Brian Klaas expose the limitations of national elections as a means of promoting democratization, and reveal the six essential strategies that dictators use to undermine the electoral process in order to guarantee victory for themselves.

Election rigging by dictators is too easy, and the West often looks the other way   Carla Anne Robbins  Washington Post July 5, 2018

Image: Cover of How to Rig an Election by Nic Cheeseman and Brian Klass Credit Yale University Press