Democracy in Trouble: Democratic Resilience and Breakdown from 1900 to 2022

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Myles Williamson (University of Alabama) Christopher Akor (University of Alabama)

Democracy in Trouble

Democratic Resilience and Breakdown from 1900 to 2022

Myles Williamson (University of Alabama), Christopher Akor (University of Alabama), Amanda B. Edgell (University of Alabama)

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English

Cambridge University Press
16 January 2025

Political leaders & leadership; Political structures: democracy; Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship; Political economy

Series: Elements in Political Economy

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This Element investigates the process of executive aggrandizement to identify factors associated with democratic resilience. We focus on five democracies that showed resilience in the face of incumbent-led autocratization. To understand how these cases survived, we pair them with similar cases where incumbents successfully dismantled democracy from within. Through structured focused comparisons, our inductive exercise provides insights into how the process of executive aggrandizement unfolds. The case narratives reveal similar patterns, with incumbents often targeting the media, civil society, and judiciary and using shared tactics to weaken democratic institutions. Where democracies survived, anti-democratic incumbents made critical errors, including major policy blunders and miscalculations, which ultimately cost them their positions and allowed democracy to rebound. Where democracy broke down, incumbents were largely able to avoid or mitigate such errors, often through ethnopopulist appeals.

By: Myles Williamson (University of Alabama), Christopher Akor (University of Alabama), Amanda B. Edgell (University of Alabama)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781009462211
ISBN 10: 1009462210
Series: Elements in Political Economy
Pages: 92
Publication Date: 16 January 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active