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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"democratic backsliding"”.
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Essays on the Political Economy of Democratization and Democratic Backsliding
… but is then threatened from within by an anti-democratic state executive? Third, what influence has the recent episode of democratic backsliding within the United States had on America’s soft power abroad? In the first paper, I provide a new theory of the relationship between economic …
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Unravelling the dynamics of authoritarian strategies : a comparative study of Suharto’s new order in Indonesia and Jammeh’s rule in the Gambia
… as a result of rising authoritarianism and democratic backsliding. However, there exists an undertheorized and variations on autocrat’s decision calculus for prioritizing repression over co-optation, vice versa. Drawing from this, I make two assumptions that state: 1. Low resource endowment …
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Transnational Network of Autocrats. Study of Democratic Erosion
… thesis investigates the systematic erosion of democratic institutions under personalist leadership amidst a documented global decline in democracy. It addresses the central question of how elected leaders dismantle institutional safeguards to establish authoritarian rule and examines the extent …
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When Elections Become Crises: Crisis Management, Institutional Architecture, and Democratic Resilience in the United States and France
Democratic elections are increasingly contested sites for informational attacks, delegitimization, and legitimacy strain. Yet the frameworks most commonly applied to electoral vulnerability, electoral integrity and democratic backsliding, were not designed to examine the moment of acute …
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When Elections Become Crises: Crisis Management, Institutional Architecture, and Democratic Resilience in the United States and France
Democratic elections are increasingly contested sites for informational attacks, delegitimization, and legitimacy strain. Yet the frameworks most commonly applied to electoral vulnerability, electoral integrity and democratic backsliding, were not designed to examine the moment of acute …
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Resetting public policy? Democracies, Dictatorships, and Policy Change
… I study policymaking across authoritarian and democratic regimes that differed in terms of their space for contestation, analyzing the mechanisms through which changes in such space affect policy areas with different levels of visibility. I advance a nuanced understanding of the relationship …
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The Affective Politics of Democratic Erosion: Explaining Mass Support for Executive Aggrandizement
… has emerged as one of the chief threats to democratic regimes. In various countries, ranging from Turkey and Hungary to Venezuela, elected incumbents used their democratic mandates to gradually dismantle democratic institutions. Similar patterns of executive aggrandizement have been visible …
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AUTOCRATIZATION AND PUBLIC OPINION ONDEMOCRACY: INSIGHTS FROM TURKEY
… of democracy, evaluations of regime democraticness, and support for democracy, using Turkey’s recent shift from a flawed democracy to a competitive authoritarian regime as a case study. The analysis draws on diverse data sources, including the World Values Survey, V-Dem and Freedom …
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The Consolidation of Power through Electoral Engineering
… supplements the literature on democratization/democratic backsliding and is applicable as a foundation for empirical analysis. • The consolidation of power is defined as an action that meets four criteria: an actor that possesses power purposefully uses that power to increase its long-term …
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Conditional and Differential? Locating the Role of Civil Society in Anti-corruption Policy Outcomes
… of civic space phenomenon is part of the broader democratic backsliding or autocratization that has pervaded even long standing and consolidated democracies. Locating the place of civil society given such contexts poses a daunting challenge, as one may ask: if democratic grounds are backsliding, …
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A European Ukraine: answering the membership question
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-15 without embargo terms
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How the Ethical Positions of Voters and Politicians Matter in a Democracy
… correlates with a decrease in positive democratic attitudes. This finding highlights that ethical distance matters to our understanding of support for changing the system and making it less democratic – even though people are satisfied with the system in its current form. I also …