How to Rig an Election

By: Nic Cheeseman, Brian Klaas

Narrated by: Matthew Josdal

Contrary to what is commonly believed, authoritarian leaders who agree to hold elections are generally able to remain in power longer than autocrats who refuse to allow the populace to vote. In this engaging and provocative audiobook, 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.

Based on their firsthand experiences as election watchers and their hundreds of interviews with presidents, prime ministers, diplomats, election officials, and conspirators, Cheeseman and Klaas document instances of election rigging from Argentina to Zimbabwe, including notable examples from Brazil, India, Nigeria, Russia, and the United States - touching on the 2016 election.

This eye-opening study offers a sobering overview of corrupted professional politics, while providing fertile intellectual ground for the development of new solutions for protecting democracy from authoritarian subversion.

©2018 Nicholas Cheeseman and Brian Klaas (P)2018 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

We need to pay attention!

A good read and, no surprise, some applicability, to the U.S. it’s interesting that we created or perfected some of the more effective techniques, including gerrymandering, literacy tests, and more.