PSCI250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Institutional Revolutionary Party, Electoral Fraud, Military Intelligence
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In states with strong democratic traditions, efforts (sometimes significant efforts) are made to create a more-or-less level playing field for various political parties. State institutions are widely and systematically abused by the political party in uneven if: office: 2. A dominant party is significantly and systematically favored at the expense of the: 3. Taiwan: e. g. , in taiwan, in the mid-1990s, the assets owned by the ruling party -- the. In competitive authoritarian states sometimes independent newspapers are allowed to exist, but in many low-income countries such newspapers reach only a small urban elite, and the state-run media -- almost always biased toward the ruling party. - are the dominant and sometimes the only source of news. Fujimori"s share of tv coverage was close to 90 percent, and nearly all coverage of opposition parties was negative: uneven access to the law.