Democracy
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Democracy identifies the general processes causing democratization and de-democratization at a national level across the world over the last few hundred years. It singles out integration of trust networks into public politics, insulation of public politics from categorical inequality, and suppression of autonomous coercive power centres as crucial processes. Through analytic narratives and comparisons of multiple regimes, mostly since World War II, this book makes the case for recasting current theories of democracy, democratization and de-democratization.
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Most de-democratization writings concentrate on general institutional aspects of democracy and pay less attention to backsliding in terms of representativeness and inclusiveness of democracies.
“Yet, most dedemocratization writings concentrate on more general institutional aspects of democracy and pay less attention to backsliding in terms of representativeness and inclusiveness of democracies (Tilly, 2007;Walby, 2015).”
From Towards a Conceptual Framework for Struggles over Democracy in Backsliding States: Gender Equality Policy in Central Eastern Europe (2018) · cites this paper as Tilly, 2007
Free and fair elections represent a cornerstone of democratic governance.
“Free and fair elections represent a cornerstone of democratic governance (Tilly, 2007).”
From The Role of Law in Strengthening Democratic Governance (2025) · cites this paper as Tilly, 2007
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- Authors
- Tilly, C.
- Affiliations
- Columbia University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Tilly, Charles
- Venue
- Cambridge University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2007-04-02
- OpenAlex
- W4253343670
- Cited by
- 661
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 25.60
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Cambridge University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Political Theory and Democracy
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Political Conflict and Governance
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Electoral Systems and Political Participation
- Keywords
- democracy, democratization, de-democratization, public politics, categorical inequality, democratic theory
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