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Skalnik Leff, Carol Skalnik Leff, Carol Gaines, Brian J. Sin, Gisela Winters, Matthew S. Burke, Amanda E. 2019-08-23T20:44:40Z 2019-08-23T20:44:40Z 2021-08-24T09:15:11Z 2019-04-10 2019-05 The literature on transitions and democratization overwhelmingly supports the idea that opposition parties should pursue tactics akin to those used in Westminster and other Western democracies, and those the choice to pursue extra-parliamentary opposition tactics is ultimately anti-democratic. In particular, there is a popular consensus that opposition participation in boycotts prevents the development of democracy. This dissertation takes a critical look at this conjecture, evaluating its plausibility in the first dedicated mixed-methods study of parliamentary and electoral boycotts as extra-parliamentary opposition tactics. I argue that the choice to condemn the use of boycotts takes too narrow a view of the utility of extra-parliamentary tactics in new democracies. I support this claim through the use of case study analysis and dynamic panel data analysis, for which I constructed, using event data, the most extensive dataset on electoral boycotts and the first dataset on legislative boycotts. My findings in both parts show that there is indeed no difference between the likelihood that a country that experiences a boycott and a country which does not will experience good or improved democratic governance, refuting the literature’s current consensus. Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2021-05-01 The student, Amanda Burke, accepted the attached license on 2019-04-08 at 21:15. The student, Amanda Burke, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2019-04-08 at 21:24. This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2019-04-10 at 08:52. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #13527 on 2019-08-22 at 16:20:53 Made available in DSpace on 2019-08-23T20:44:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 BURKE-DISSERTATION-2019.pdf: 1336799 bytes, checksum: 15ecac68d2a8b42fe1584507b3df7296 (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4209 bytes, checksum: f8e5253fb8d4aba67f7371bb9983371d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2019-04-10 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 112288 Lift date: 2021-08-23T20:44:50Z Reason: Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 112288 Lift date: 2021-08-23T20:46:41Z Reason: Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 112288 Lift date: 2021-08-23T20:47:38Z Reason: Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 112288 Lift date: 2021-08-23T20:48:32Z Reason: Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Limited Restriction Lifted for Item 112288 on 2021-08-24T09:15:11Z. application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2142/105169 en Copyright 2019 Amanda Burke democratization, opposition, comparative politics, mixed methods, opposition parties, good governance Thinking outside the box: Extra-parliamentary strategies and their effects on the development of good governance in new democracies text text Political Science Political Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.