Global Challenges to Democracy

Comparative Perspectives on Backsliding, Autocracy, and Resilience
Herausgeber: Roberts, Kenneth M.; Bunce, Valerie J.; Pepinsky, Thomas B.; Riedl, Rachel Beatty

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Produktbeschreibung

Following democracy's global advance in the late 20th century, recent patterns of democratic erosion or 'backsliding' have generated extensive scholarly debate. Backsliding towards autocracy is often the work of elected leaders operating within democratic institutions, challenging conventional thinking about the logic of democratic consolidation, the enforcement of institutional checks and balances, and the development and reproduction of democratic norms. This volume tackles these challenges head-on, drawing theoretical insights from classic literature on democratic transitions and consolidation to help explain contemporary challenges to democracy. It offers a comparative perspective on the dynamics of democratic backsliding, the changing character of authoritarian threats, and the sources of democratic resiliency around the world. It also integrates the institutional, civil society, and international dimensions of contemporary challenges to democracy, while providing coverage of Western and Eastern Europe, South and Southeast Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the United States.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009602600
• ISBN-10: 1009602608
• Artikelnr.: 72700815

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: global challenges to democracy: backsliding, resiliency,
and democratic theory Kenneth M. Roberts, Valerie J. Bunce, Thomas Pepinsky
and Rachel Beatty Riedl; Part I. Institutions as Sites of Regime
Contestation: 2. Backsliding in India the weakening of referee institutions
Milan Vaishnav; 3. The (de)democratizing tango: why it's hard to get
democracy to stick in Southeast Asia Meredith L. Weiss and Allen Hicken; 4.
State capacity and accountability in low-income states Jamie Bleck and
Nicolas van de Walle; 5. Democratic backsliding and the politicization of
public employment Bryn Rosenfeld and Frances Cayton; 6. Election
administration and democratic fragility in the US David A. Bateman, Robert
C. Lieberman and Aaron Childree; Part II. Civil Society, Social Media, and
Political Messaging: 7. Civil society mobilization against equal
citizenship in Latin America Lindsay Mayka; 8. Nationalist passion,
economic interest, and the moral economy of the Hungarian right, 2002-2010.
Béla Greskovits; 9. Post-communist democracy, civil society, and the
problem of accountability Michael Bernhard; 10. Civil society resistance to
democratic backsliding Mark R. Beissinger; 11. Is democracy broken?
Disinformation wants you to think that it is Alexandra Cirone; 12. The
indispensability of dominance M. Steven Fish; Part III. International
Dimensions of the Struggle between Democracy and Autocracy: 13. The
security imperative and right nationalist politics in contemporary Europe
Mabel Berezin; 14. The long shadow of 1968: Christian democracy's struggle
for dominance and democratic backsliding in Europe Dorothee Bohle and Aida
Hozic; 15. Foro Madríd and the transnationalization of the far-right
Stefano Palestini and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser; 16. Conclusion Valerie
Bunce.