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Resilience of democracies: responses to illiberal and authoritarian challenges
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Abstract Illiberalism and authoritarianism have become major threats to democracy across the world. In response to this development, research on the causes and processes of democratic declines has blossomed. Much less scholarly attention has been devoted to the issue of democratic resilience. Why are some de... mehr
Illiberalism and authoritarianism have become major threats to democracy across the world. In response to this development, research on the causes and processes of democratic declines has blossomed. Much less scholarly attention has been devoted to the issue of democratic resilience. Why are some democracies more resilient than others to the current trend of autocratization? What role do institutions, actors and structural factors play in this regard? What options do democratic actors have to address illiberal and authoritarian challenges? This Special Issue addresses these questions. The present introduction sets the stage by developing a new concept of democratic resilience as the ability of a democratic system, its institutions, political actors, and citizens to prevent or react to external and internal challenges, stresses, and assaults. We sketch three potential reactions of democratic regimes: to withstand without changes, to adapt through internal changes, and to recover without losing the democratic character of its regime and its constitutive core institutions, organizations, and processes. The more democracies are resilient on all four levels of the political system (political community, institutions, actors, citizens) the less vulnerable they turn out to be in the present and future.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Demokratie; Autoritarismus; Polarisierung; Populismus; politisches Regime
Klassifikation
Allgemeines, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Methoden, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Politikwissenschaft
Freie Schlagwörter
Autocratization; autocracy; democratic resilience; illiberalism; political parties
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2021
Seitenangabe
S. 869-884
Zeitschriftentitel
Democratization, 28 (2021) 5
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2021.1928081
ISSN
1743-890X
Status
Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)