Electoral Authoritarianism: The Dynamics of Unfree Competition Edited by Andreas Schedler […] This book contains original comparative research into the conflictive interaction between rulers and opposition parties in the central arena of struggle under electoral authoritarianism - the electoral battlefield. […] Part 1 discusses some basic conceptual problems and measurement issues that have been haunting the emergent study of electoral authoritarian regimes. [...] Part 2 of this book studies the logic of actor formation under conditions of electoral authoritarianism. In particular, it addresses problems of strategic coordination both ruling parties and opposition parties face. […] Part 3 of the volume turns its attention to core conflicts and strategic choices faced by ruling parties and opposition actors on the "electoral battlefield". […] Part 4 of the book switches its analytical focus from the strategic interplay between rulers and opposition parties to exogenous factors, both institutional and international, that condition their correlations of force in the electoral arena. […]