I am working on a research paper on election fraud in different government types. I am having troubling finding a definitive answer regarding the government type of Zimbabwe under Mugabe's rule. I want to know what the government type was internally but more so what type externally. They used elections to maintain some external legitimacy, but what type of government did other countries perceive them as? It seems somewhere between a one-party Socialist state and a Dictatorship.

Hope this isn't too all over the place. Thank you for taking the time to respond!