Search Results - subject:"backsliding"

From polarisation to autocratisation: The role of information pollution in Brazil's democratic erosion

Breuer, Anita - 2025

This study explores the complex relationship between information pollution, polarisation, and democracy in Brazil, a country that has recently experienced both democratic erosion and a pivotal democratic "U-turn". Information pollution - the dissemination of false, misleading or harmful...

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The European Union as a target : when do democratic backsliders rhetorically challenge the EU?

Waters, Kari; Call, Samantha - 2025

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From polarisation to autocratisation : the role of information pollution in Brazil's democratic erosion

Breuer, Anita - German Institute of Development and Sustainability - 2025

This study explores the complex relationship between information pollution, polarisation, and democracy in Brazil, a country that has recently experienced both democratic erosion and a pivotal democratic “U-turn”. Information pollution – the dissemination of false, misleading or harmful...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015205296

Beetz, Jan Pieter - In: Journal of common market studies : JCMS 62 (2024) 2, pp. 508-524

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Impeachment as Last Resort to Safeguard Democracy? Removing the Head of Government in Different Institutional Settings

Tokatlı, Mahir - In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift 65 (2023) 2, pp. 395-415

Democracy would essentially fail if, despite an electoral defeat, the government refused to concede office. This possibility is a constant uncertainty that democracy has to deal with, which makes it fragile in terms of its survival. This was on full display after the 2020 U.S. presidential...

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Problematizing Modern Democracy in the United States:

Simon, Julia - In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift 65 (2023) 2, pp. 367-394

risks of extreme polarization and democratic backsliding in the United States (US) have been highlighted in the literature … democratic backsliding. …

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How backsliding governments keep the European Union hospitable for autocracy: Evidence from intergovernmental negotiations

Winzen, Thomas - In: The Review of International Organizations (2023), pp. 1-30

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. This study focuses on the tactics that … backsliding governments employ to preserve this hospitable environment and the conditions under which they succeed. I argue that …

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Militarisation of COVID-19 responses and autocratisation: A comparative study of eight countries in Asia-Pacific and Latin America

Croissant, Aurel; Kühn, David; Macias-Weller, Ariam; … - 2023

This paper examines the relationship between the militarisation of COVID-19 state responses and autocratisation in eight Asian and Latin American countries. Using a conceptual framework of COVID-19-related military missions and operations, our findings for each country over the first two...

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Political participation patterns of the emerging middle classes in Peru and the Philippines

Never, Babette; Anselmetti, Chiara - 2023

The growing middle classes in middle-income countries may play a key role in current trends of democratic backsliding …

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Militant constitutionalism : a promising concept to make constitutional backsliding less likely?

Gutmann, Jerg; Voigt, Stefan - In: Public choice 195 (2023) 3/4, pp. 377-404

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