Resilience of Democracy (eBook, PDF)

Responses to Illiberal and Authoritarian Challenges
Redaktion: Lührmann, Anna; Merkel, Wolfgang

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book posits three potential reactions of democratic regimes: to withstand without changes, to adapt through internal changes, and to recover without losing the democratic character of its regime and its constitutive core institutions, organizations, and processes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000842760
• Artikelnr.: 67249426

Autorenporträt

Anna Lührmann has been Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and since 2021 serves as a Member of the German Bundestag and Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office. Wolfgang Merkel is Professor Emeritus at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, and Director Emeritus at WZB Berlin Social Science Center. He serves as Senior Scholar at the Democracy Institute at Central University in Budapest. His research focuses on Transformation of political regimes, (defective) democracy and democratization, political parties, and social democracy in power. He co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Political, Social, and Economic Transformation (2019).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Resilience of democracies: responses to illiberal and
authoritarian challenges 1. How democracies prevail: democratic resilience
as a two-stage process 2. What halts democratic erosion? The changing role
of accountability 3. Pernicious polarization, autocratization and
opposition strategies 4. Negative partisanship towards the populist radical
right and democratic resilience in Western Europe 5. The supply and demand
model of civic education: evidence from a field experiment in the
Democratic Republic of Congo 6. Democratic Horizons: what value change
reveals about the future of democracy 7. Disrupting the autocratization
sequence: towards democratic resilience