Backsliding : democratic regress in the contemporary world
Stephan Haggard
Bok · Engelsk · 2021
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| Omfang | 93 sider : figurer
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| Opplysninger | Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Backsliding -- Contents -- 1 Backsliding: Concept, Mechanisms, Measurement -- 1.1 Conceptual Issues: Backsliding from What to What? -- 1.2 Toward a Theory of Backsliding -- 1.3 Cognate Routes to Democratic Decay -- 1.4 Measurement: Gauging the Extent of Backsliding and Selecting Cases -- 2 Social and Political Origins of Backsliding: The Role of Polarization -- 2.1 The Effects of Polarization -- 2.2 Political Polarization: An Empirical Overview -- 2.2.1 The Extent of Elite and Mass Polarization -- 2.2.2 The Politics of Polarization -- 2.3 Brazil, 2016-2019 -- 2.4 Poland, 2016-2019 -- 2.5 The United States, 2016-2019 -- 2.6 Conclusion: Coming to Power -- 3 Constitutions in the Balance: Parties, Legislatures and the Collapse of the Separation of Powers -- 3.1 Frontal Assault: Creating New Constitutional Assemblies in Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia -- 3.2 Letting Autocrats In: Party Fragmentation, Coordination and Disproportionality -- 3.3 The Coordination Problem -- 3.4 Electoral Rules and Disproportionality -- 3.5 Compliant Legislatures: Collapsing the Division of Powers -- 3.5.1 Defaulting on Oversight -- 3.5.2 Stacking the Deck: Political Appointments -- 3.5.3 Expanding - and Extending - Executive Powers -- 3.6 Conclusion -- 4 The Backsliding Process -- 4.1 Backsliding: An Overview -- 4.2 The Causal Effects of Incrementalism -- 4.2.1 Venezuela -- 4.2.2 Russia -- 4.2.3 Hungary -- 4.2.4 Trump's America -- 4.2.5 Incrementalism: A Reprise -- 4.3 Backsliding within Democracies and Transitions to Competitive Authoritarian Regimes -- 4.4 Conclusion -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Acknowledgments.
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| ISBN | 9781108958400
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