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The Signs of Deconsolidation
Roberto Foa,Yascha Mounk +1 more
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The authors show that the success of anti-establishment parties and candidates is not a temporal or geographic aberration, but rather a reflection of growing popular disaffection with liberal-democratic norms and institutions, and of increasing support for authoritarian interpretations of democracy.Abstract:
In recent years, parties and candidates challenging key democratic norms have won unprecedented popular support in liberal democracies across the globe. Drawing on public opinion data from the World Values Survey and various national polls, we show that the success of anti-establishment parties and candidates is not a temporal or geographic aberration, but rather a reflection of growing popular disaffection with liberal-democratic norms and institutions, and of increasing support for authoritarian interpretations of democracy. The record number of anti-system politicians in office raises uncertainty about the strength of supposedly “consolidated” liberal democracies and highlights the need for further analysis of the signs of democratic de consolidation.read more
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Studying Populism in Comparative Perspective: Reflections on the Contemporary and Future Research Agenda:
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Rethinking Political Communication in a Time of Disrupted Public Spheres
W. Lance Bennett,Barbara Pfetsch +1 more
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Rethinking “democratic backsliding” in Central and Eastern Europe – looking beyond Hungary and Poland
TL;DR: This article introduced contributions to a special issue of East European Politics on "Rethinking democratic backsliding in Central and Eastern Europe" which seeks to expand the study of democratic back-sliding.
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Does Public Support Help Democracy Survive
TL;DR: This paper used a Bayesian latent variable model to estimate a smooth country-year panel of democratic support for 135 countries and up to 29 years and demonstrated a positive effect of support on subsequent democratic change, while adjusting for the possible confounding effects of prior levels of democracy and unobservable time-invariant factors.
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Is Western Democracy Backsliding? Diagnosing the Risks
Pippa Norris,Pippa Norris +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw on Juan Linz and Alfred Stepan's Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation, which theorizes that consolidation occurs when three conditions are met: Culturally, the overwhelming majority of people believe that democracy is the best form of government and any further reforms reflect these values and principles.
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What Is Populism
TL;DR: Muller argues that at populism's core is a rejection of pluralism and proposes a number of concrete strategies for how liberal democrats should best deal with populists as discussed by the authors.
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Toward Consolidated Democracy
Juan J. Linz,Alfred Stepan +1 more
TL;DR: In a modern polity, free and authoritative elections cannot be held, winners cannot exercise the monopoly of legitimate force, and citizens cannot effectively have their rights protected by a rule of law unless a state exists.
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The Democratic Disconnect
Roberto Foa,Yascha Mounk +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found that the citizens of wealthy, established democracies are less satisfied with their governments than they have been at any time since opinion polling began, and that a serious democratic disconnect has emerged, which may begin to challenge the stability of seemingly consolidated democracies.
Rebellious civil society: Popular protest and democratic consolidation in Poland, 1989-1993
Grzegorz Ekiert,Jan Kubik +1 more
TL;DR: Ekiert and Kubik as discussed by the authors studied the politics of protest in post-communist Central Europe and found that organized protests not only continued under the new regime but also had a powerful impact on Poland's democratic consolidation.
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The Danger of Deconsolidation: How Much Should We Worry?
TL;DR: Foa and Mounk as mentioned in this paper argue that the public faith in democracy has eroded during the past two decades while support for non-democratic alternatives has risen, and evidence from some key indicators suggests that the mass basis of support for democracy is growing stronger.