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Backsliding: Democratic Regress in the Contemporary World

open access: yes, 2021
1. Backsliding: Concept, Mechanisms, Measurement 2. Social and Political Origins of Backsliding: The Role of Polarization 3. Constitutions in the Balance: Parties, Legislatures and the Collapse of the Separation of Powers 4.
Stephan Haggard
exaly   +1 more source

Backsliding

2021
Assaults on democracy are increasingly coming from the actions of duly elected governments, rather than coups. Backsliding examines the processes through which elected rulers weaken checks on executive power, curtail political and civil liberties, and undermine the integrity of the electoral system.
Stephan Haggard, Robert Kaufman
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Unwelcome Change: Coming to Terms With Democratic Backsliding

open access: yesAnnual Review of Political Science, 2018
Scholars have paid increasing attention to democratic backsliding, yet efforts to explain this phenomenon remain inchoate. This article seeks to place the study of democratic backsliding on sturdier conceptual, operational, and theoretical foundations ...
David Waldner   +3 more
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Backsliding Against Malnutrition

Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health, 2010
The Millennium Development Goals stated an ambition to cut severe poverty and hunger in half by the year 2015. The recent rise in staple food prices and global economic crisis make it clear that these goals will not be met and that recent gains in mitigating malnutrition are being erased.
Gail G, Harrison   +2 more
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Resisting Backsliding

2022
In the past two decades, democratically elected executives across the world have used their popularity to push for legislation that, over time, destroys systems of checks and balances, hinders free and fair elections, and undermines political rights and civil liberties.
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How Backsliding Governments Keep the European Union Hospitable for Autocracy: Evidence From Intergovernmental Negotiations

open access: yesReview of International Organizations
The European Union (EU) is a democratic organization but faces severe cases of democratic backsliding. The literature deems the EU a hospitable environment for and reluctant to reign in backsliding.
Thomas Winzen
exaly   +2 more sources

Backsliding

1965
Abstract Discusses an important objection to the view that moral judgements are prescriptive: the existence of cases in which people act in ways that they know to be wrong. The objection is that if moral judgements are prescriptive, it is impossible to accept a moral judgement and yet act contrary to it; therefore prescriptivism must be ...
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