Meaning of electoralism | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A state of partial transition from authoritarian rule toward democratic rule, in which the regime conducts the electoral aspects of democratic governance in a relatively free and fair manner.
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2. The strategy of electing politicians into a representative government in order to create political change.
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Examples

““In December, 1906, […] the great obstacle between the Confederation General du Travail and the Socialist party, the only organized forces of the working-class, was the electoralism which dominated the party. Today, in 1912, the great obstacle is the anti-parliamentarism which rages within the C. G. T.””

“Indeed, in 1986 the movement had already suffered a split⟳ with the southern traditionalists who opposed the twin policy of electoralism and violence. Ruair O Brdaigh became the leader of the breakaway Republican Sinn Fin […]”

“Yet in the events at Llanelli can be seen aspects of the Great Unrest which went beyond the limits of electoralism, pointing the way towards an insurrectionary challenge⟳ both to state power and to the inertia of the reformist leadership in the trade⟳ unions and the Labour Party.”

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