Regimes & democratic erosion / ChatGPT
Competitive Authoritarianism Learning Companion
Investigate regimes where electoral competition is real but unfair, and why leaders tilt the playing field instead of eliminating the game.
Before you begin
Read Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way, “The New Competitive Authoritarianism” (2020). Full text may require library access.
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Give the conversation a job.
- State the author’s central claim in your own words.
- Point to one passage or piece of evidence that carries the explanation.
- Offer the strongest rival account and ask which observation would distinguish them.
- Write your own bounded conclusion and one follow-up research question.
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