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Does democratic backsliding undermine climate policy? No evidence (yet) [PDF]
iScienceSummary: Countries with liberal democratic institutions tend to have stricter climate policies and have made more progress in reducing emissions than autocracies.
Thomas Bernauer, Tobias Böhmelt
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How citizens’ experience of democracy can actually pave the way to democratic backsliding [PDF]
Communications PsychologyWhy do many citizens of Western Europe appear complacent about their societies’ democratic backsliding? This behavior can be at least partly explained by the effect of personal experience on risk perception: a stable democratic past lulls humans into a ...
Ralph Hertwig, Stephan Lewandowsky
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Backsliding under contested oversight
Political Science Research and Methods, 2021 Citizens do not directly observe democratic backsliding and, as a result, may hesitate to respond to subversion. We develop a model of third-party oversight bodies, such as the media or courts, that detect and assess actions that may be subversive to ...
Robert Gulotty, Zhaotian Luo
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Democratic Backsliding or Stabilization?
Politikon, 2020 There is a great deal of disagreement about the nature and extent of the alleged democratic backsliding. In order to understand the connection between the conflicting assessments of the democratization process and democracy indices (Freedom House ...
Hakan Sönmez
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The Risks to Judicial Independence in Latvia: A View Eighteen Years Since EU Accession
Croatian Yearbook of European Law and Policy, 2022 The European Union (EU) is in the midst of what could be deemed the biggest threat to its current order since its inception: Member States backsliding on EU founding values.
Beatrice Monciunskaite
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Austrian Law Journal, 2022 Based on a talk at the University of Graz in November 2021, this article treats the current state and some consequences of the ongoing dismantling of rule-of-law standards driven by legislative “reforms” in some EU Member States.
Mader, Oliver
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Peer Reviewing the Rule of Law? A New Mechanism to Safeguard EU Values
European Papers, 2022 (Series Information) European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2022 7(2), 671-695 | Article | (Table of Contents) I. Situating the topic. - II. Dealing with rule transgressions. - II.1. Instrumentalist and normative approaches. - II.2.
Thomas Conzelmann
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The Diversity of Actors in Reform Backsliding and Its Containment in the Ukrainian Hybrid Regime
Politics and Governance, 2023 Numerous studies on democratic backsliding mostly focus on the state executive as a driving force. In contrast, the analysis presented here highlights the role of vested interests as the main actors behind backsliding processes in hybrid regimes.
Michael Martin Richter
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Global justice: Theory, Practice, Rhetoric, 2020 This paper critically engages the legal and political framework for responding to democracy and rule of law backsliding in the EU. I develop a new and original critique of Article 7 TEU based on it being democratically illegitimate and normatively ...
Tom Theuns
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Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2023 Puritans were wary of routine or of regular piety, as their theology convinced them that the Christian life ought to consist of steady and observable progress towards godliness.
Alec Ryrie
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