Dynamic Democratic Backsliding
British Journal of Political ScienceAbstract Democratic backsliding occurs incrementally, but the empirical study of how citizens respond to undemocratic politicians has been predominantly static. I formulate and test predictions about how different sequences of backsliding shape accountability. Using a novel preregistered experiment (
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Essays on the Political Economy of Democratization and Democratic Backsliding
, 2022 This four-paper dissertation addresses three fundamental questions in the political economy of democracy. First, does economic development cause democratization? Second, to what extent are citizens willing to defend democracy after it has been established, but is then threatened from within by an anti-democratic state executive?
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A Country That Never Sleeps? A Web Scrapping Analysis of the 24‐h Economy Policy in Ghana
Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In light of revitalizing Ghana's economic landscape through sustainable job creation underpinned by 24‐h operations across all key sectors, the National Democratic Congress proposed the ‘24‐h economy’ policy proposal. This study employs the web‐scraping technique through text mining and python codes to analyse 1820 comments from Facebook, X ...
Pius Gamette +3 more
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The Need for an EU Expulsion Mechanism: Democratic Backsliding and the Failure of Article 7. [PDF]
Res Publica, 2022 Theuns T.
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Mobilizing Rural Support: Targeted Government Spending and Democratic Backsliding in Hungary
Politics and GovernanceThe spread of democratic backsliding has drawn scholarly attention to the strategies and approaches characteristic of these regimes. However, our understanding of targeted government spending programs designed to favor specific segments of society to ...
Krisztina Szabó, Ádám Reiff
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Democratic Backsliding and the Balance Wheel Hypothesis: Partisanship and State Funding for Higher Education in the United States. [PDF]
High Educ Policy, 2022 Taylor BJ, Kunkle K, Watts K.
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Violence and Democratic Backsliding in the Philippines under Duterte
Human Rights in the Global SouthThis study examines how state-led violence under the Duterte administration in the Philippines contributed to democratic backsliding, offering critical insights for understanding human rights violations in weak democracies of the Global South.
Sol Iglesias
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The Politics of Masculinity: Democratic Backsliding and Gender Empowerment
, 2023 M.P.P.Recent trends in democratic nations have indicated some level of ‘backsliding’ with news reels highlighting hypermasculine world leaders. At the same time, there have been increased feminist movements advocating for women’s rights; sometimes, it is
Gulas, Seth Davies
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The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 140-148, January/March 2025.Abstract In this article, the key dilemmas that will confront the new Labour administration in Britain during its initial period in power are examined. The Starmer government is seeking to use the state pragmatically to improve British economic performance, stem the crisis in public services and strengthen the strategic capacity of Whitehall.
Patrick Diamond +2 more
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Opposition Political Party Approaches and International Assistance Against Democratic Backsliding
, 2019 This quick review synthesises the literature from academic, policy and knowledge institutions sources on the approaches that opposition political parties use to increase democratic spaces when operating in non-democratic settings.
Evert-jan Quak (19278466)
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