Editing Illiberal Democracy (section)

===[[File:CompAuth.png]] Competitive Authoritarianism===
[[File:CompAuth.png]] '''Competitive Authoritarianism''' is a type of [[File:IllibDem.png]] illiberal democracy in which [[File:Liberal_Democracy.png]] liberal-democratic institutions remain the source of political power. The ruling party [[File:SemiAuthPar.png]] in a Competitive Authoritarian regime, however, wields an unfair advantage in elections by abusing government institutions, limiting [[File:Mediastocracy_flair.png]] media coverage of opposition parties, [[File:Sec.png]] persecuting those deemed too dangerous to state interests, and in rare cases electoral results are manipulated.<ref>[https://scholar.harvard.edu/levitsky/files/SL_elections.pdf "THE RISE OF COMPETITIVE AUTHORITARIANISM" pages 52-53]</ref> But the ruling party still allows opposition parties within the [[File:Anrad.png]] Overton window to compete with them for power, allowing minimal pluralism. Such regimes are often backed by powerful [[File:Technocracy.png]] state bureaucracies, as is the case in [[File:Cball-Singapore.png]] Singapore and [[File:Cball-Japan.png]] Japan.