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Fear of campaign violence and support for democracy and autocracy
Election violence is common in many developing countries and has potentially detrimental implications for democratic consolidation. Drawing on political psychology, we argue that citizens’ fear of campaign violence undermines support for democracy while ...
Von Borzyskowski, I +2 more
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A Public Philosophy for Public Administration in Times of Democratic Crisis
ABSTRACT Public administration is at the center of the global democratic crisis. Meeting this challenge requires more than managerial and analytic competence—it requires a public philosophy grounded in the first principles of democratic ethos. We offer such a philosophy, drawing on four seminal thinkers whose concepts reflect the conditions public ...
Curtis Ventriss, Tina Nabatchi
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After crackdown, is Turkey an autocracy?
Turkey’s president would rather turn his country into a full autocracy than give up power. But the Turkish people are clinging to what remains of their democracy, and they are ready to fight for ...
Esen, Berk, Gumuscu, Sebnem
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ABSTRACT This Reply suggests the sub‐field of U.S.‐specific public administration is under‐prepared to address democratic deconsolidation given its multi‐decade distance from the disciplines of comparative politics and political economy and from the sub‐fields of comparative and development public administration. The narrowness of what is understand as
Kim Moloney
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Turkey on the path to autocracy
TURKEY ON THE PATH TO AUTOCRACY Turkey on the path to autocracy / Aydın, Yaşar (CC BY) (-
Aydın, Yaşar
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ABSTRACT This article theorizes about weak checks and balances (C&B) and its plausible consequences. Drawing on empirical data from over 1100 municipal officials in Mexico, the study examines how executive dominance over three key institutions—the local council, internal comptroller offices, and human resources offices—facilitates consequences ...
Oliver Meza +2 more
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Does Aid Harm or Benefit Institutional Quality? Time Heals All Wounds
ABSTRACT Previous research has found conflicting results regarding the effect of aid on the quality of institutions, with some studies finding a positive relationship, whereas others finding a negative one. In this paper, we try to reconcile these results.
Michael Chletsos, Sofia Tsarsitalidou
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Anti-Regime Activism against Autocracy Support
ANTI-REGIME ACTIVISM AGAINST AUTOCRACY SUPPORT Anti-Regime Activism against Autocracy Support / Hartwich, Friederike (Rights reserved) (-
Hartwich, Friederike
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The Media Agenda‐Setting Role of Protests in Nondemocratic Regimes: A Case Study From Hungary
ABSTRACT This study investigates how protests influence media coverage in a nondemocratic context, focusing on the 2022–2023 education‐related protest wave in Hungary. Drawing on data from the Hungarian Protest Event Database (HuPED) and a corpus of 24,029 education‐related articles across 47 online news portals, we examine how different types of media—
Pal Susanszky, Sebastian Haunss
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Social Policy and Political Regime Change in Central America
ABSTRACT Does democracy deliver more inclusive and transparent social policy in low‐capacity states? And how does democratic backsliding reshape social policy? Drawing on a comparative analysis of El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua, we examine how regime change and political ideology are associated with patterns of social policy access and ...
Juliana Martínez Franzoni +1 more
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