Democracy Paradox Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman on Democratic Backsliding
The way we conceive of democracy is being challenged by these regimes and, by that I mean, because the process of backsliding is so incremental, it's difficult to see where these boundaries are.
Stephan Haggard
A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of Backsliding: Democratic Regress in the Contemporary World here.
Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman are the authors of the new book, Backsliding: Democratic Regress in the Contemporary World. Stephan is the Lawrence and Sallye Krause Distinguished Professor at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego. Robert Kaufman is a distinguished professor of political science at Rutgers University.
Key Highlights
- Describes democratic backsliding
- How polarization contributes to backsliding
- The role of legislatures in backsliding episodes
- What it means when authoritarians "reform" judiciaries
- How can citizens reverse democratic backsliding?
Key Links
Backsliding: Democratic Regress in the Contemporary World by Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman
Learn more about Stephan Haggard at www.stephanhaggard.com
Learn more about Robert Kaufman at https://fas-polisci.rutgers.edu/kaufman/
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