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Democracy in Trouble

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Availability:In StockContributor:Myles Williamson, Christopher Akor, Amanda B. EdgellSeries:Elements in Political EconomyPublish date:01/16/25Pages:92
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781009462211ISBN-10:1009462210UPC:9781009462211Book Category:Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Political EconomySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.19 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCTQB943S3
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781009462211ISBN-10:1009462210UPC:9781009462211Book Category:Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Political EconomySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.19 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCTQB943S3
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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