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Questioning Backsliding
Abstract
Jason Brownlee and Kenny Miao deftly question widespread views about the connections between democratic backsliding, democratic breakdown, and a global wave of autocratization. This brief response highlights the practical political questions that emerge from their findings and from the structural arguments they use to justify their relatively positive forecasts. The questions involve: backsliding's breadth, location, and assessment; backsliding's connections with the military; how recent changes in capitalism and party competition affect democratic resilience and, most important, why democracy's defenders succeed or fail. Tracing and naming trends is useful, but the comparative study of how individual countries resist or reverse backsliding is essential.
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“it is precisely the observation that populism often drives the dismantling of formal and informal guardrails of liberal democracy -conceived of as democratic backsliding, i.e., the gradual reversal of democratic standards by incumbent governments (Bermeo, 2016(Bermeo, , 2022;;Coppedge, 2017) -which is seen as particularly dangerous (Levitsky & Way, 2002).”
From Public Administration Under Populist Rule: Standing Up Against Democratic Backsliding (2024) · cites this paper as Bermeo, 2022
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Public Administration Under Populist Rule: Standing Up Against Democratic Backsliding
Bauer, M. W. (2024) · International Journal of Public Administration · doi:10.1080/01900692.2023.2243400 · Cited by 104
“…drives the dismantling of formal and informal guardrails of liberal democracy – conceived of as democratic backsliding, i.e., the gradual reversal of democratic standards by incumbent governments (Bermeo, 2016, 2022; Coppedge, 2017) – which is seen as particularly dangerous (Levitsky & Way, 2002).”
The Guardian State: Strengthening the public service against democratic backsliding
Yesilkagit, K., Bauer, M., Peters, B. G., & Pierre, J. (2024) · Public Administration Review · doi:10.1111/puar.13808 · Cited by 112
Metadata
- Authors
- Bermeo, N.
- Corresponding author
- Bermeo, Nancy
- Venue
- Journal of Democracy
- Publisher
- Project MUSE
- Published
- 2022-10
- Volume
- 33
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 155-159
- ISSN
- 1045-5736 (ISSN-L)
- 1086-3214
- OpenAlex
- W4306354162
- Cited by
- 46
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 22 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 4
- FWCI
- 8.63
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of democracy (publishedVersion)
- Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Political Conflict and Governance
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Political Theory and Democracy
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Politics and Society in Latin America
- Keywords
- democratic backsliding, autocratization, democratic resilience, democratic breakdown, military coups, party competition, capitalism, democratic defense
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