Democracy in Trouble
Democratic Resilience and Breakdown from 1900 to 2022
Seiten
2025
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-46220-4 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-46220-4 (ISBN)
This Element investigates the process of executive aggrandizement to identify factors associated with democratic resilience. It focuses on five democracies that showed resilience in the face of incumbent-led autocratization. The paired cases provide insights into how the process of executive aggrandizement unfolds.
This Element investigates the process of executive aggrandizement to identify factors associated with democratic resilience. We focus on five democracies that showed resilience in the face of incumbent-led autocratization. To understand how these cases survived, we pair them with similar cases where incumbents successfully dismantled democracy from within. Through structured focused comparisons, our inductive exercise provides insights into how the process of executive aggrandizement unfolds. The case narratives reveal similar patterns, with incumbents often targeting the media, civil society, and judiciary and using shared tactics to weaken democratic institutions. Where democracies survived, anti-democratic incumbents made critical errors, including major policy blunders and miscalculations, which ultimately cost them their positions and allowed democracy to rebound. Where democracy broke down, incumbents were largely able to avoid or mitigate such errors, often through ethnopopulist appeals.
This Element investigates the process of executive aggrandizement to identify factors associated with democratic resilience. We focus on five democracies that showed resilience in the face of incumbent-led autocratization. To understand how these cases survived, we pair them with similar cases where incumbents successfully dismantled democracy from within. Through structured focused comparisons, our inductive exercise provides insights into how the process of executive aggrandizement unfolds. The case narratives reveal similar patterns, with incumbents often targeting the media, civil society, and judiciary and using shared tactics to weaken democratic institutions. Where democracies survived, anti-democratic incumbents made critical errors, including major policy blunders and miscalculations, which ultimately cost them their positions and allowed democracy to rebound. Where democracy broke down, incumbents were largely able to avoid or mitigate such errors, often through ethnopopulist appeals.
1. Introduction; 2. Executive aggrandizement and democratic resilience; 3. Methodology; 4. India and Sri Lanka; 5. Bulgaria and India; 6. Ecuador and Turkey; 7. South Korea, Slovenia, and Hungary; 8. Discussion and implications; References.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 07.01.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Elements in Political Economy |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 274 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-46220-2 / 1009462202 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-46220-4 / 9781009462204 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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