Journal: Democratization

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Democratization

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1351-0347
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  • Transgovernmental networks as catalysts for democratic change?
    Item type: Journal Article
    Freyburg, Tina (2011)
    Democratization
  • Democratization and War in Political Science
    Item type: Journal Article
    Cederman, Lars-Erik; Hug, Simon; Wenger, Andreas (2008)
    Democratization
  • Patterns of democratic backsliding in third-wave democracies: a sequence analysis perspective
    Item type: Journal Article
    Wunsch, Natasha; Blanchard, Philippe (2023)
    Democratization
    Democracy has come under pressure worldwide, with growing concern over an apparent reverse wave of democratic backsliding at the global level. Bridging conceptual approaches and empirical research, this article investigates patterns of democratic backsliding in third-wave democracies. It applies a range of innovative sequence analysis techniques to the Varieties of Democracy dataset to provide a dynamic perspective on the evolution of different types of democratic safeguards against executive expansion. The resulting typology differentiates stable trajectories from different patterns of backsliding and sheds light on the diversity of backsliding processes that diverge in their shape, depth, and timing in respect to initial democratic transition. The findings contribute to broader debates on the nature of democratic backsliding and have important implications both for our theoretical understanding of the phenomenon and the practical responses devised to counter backsliding trends.
  • Who tolerates democratic backsliding? A mosaic approach to voters' responses to authoritarian leadership in Hungary
    Item type: Journal Article
    Wunsch, Natasha; Gessler, Theresa (2023)
    Democratization
    In contexts of democratic backsliding, citizens represent the last bulwark against the systematic dismantling of checks and balances by overbearing executives. And yet, they repeatedly fail to punish authoritarian-leaning leaders at the ballot box, allowing them to consolidate their grip on power. Why is that so? We leverage a conjoint survey experiment in Hungary to probe competing mechanisms of citizen tolerance towards democratic violations in a context of severe backsliding. Our main contribution consists of demonstrating empirically the presence of a composite effect, whereby authoritarian-leaning elites succeed in offering targeted compensations to different groups, ultimately building a mosaic of support among voters to secure enduring electoral backing. We pinpoint trade-offs notably related to cultural conservatism and economic benefits among different subgroups of the population. At the same time, our empirical findings indicate surprisingly high levels of condemnation of undemocratic positions by Hungarian respondents. We discuss how this unexpected pattern points to the limitations of conjoint designs as well as the overlooked supply side of democratic backsliding. Our study feeds into broader debates about the unfolding and entrenchment of democratic backsliding and how we study these processes.
  • EU democracy promotion in the neighbourhood
    Item type: Journal Article
    Lavenex, Sandra; Schimmelfennig, Frank (2011)
    Democratization
  • Partisanship and institutional trust in Mongolia
    Item type: Journal Article
    Jacob, Marc; Schenke, Greta (2020)
    Democratization
    What explains institutional trust in democratic institutions in Mongolia? Institutional trust facilitates establishing democratic institutions in post-transition countries and has been accounted for by institutional performance and social capital approaches in previous research. We argue that particularly in post-transition systems, partisanship, the evaluation of corruption and the quality of democracy also impacts institutional trust. To contribute to the study of political culture in Mongolia, the only Asian post-communist country to have developed towards democracy, we investigate determinants of citizens’ trust in the president, parliament, and judiciary. To test the various explanatory factors of trust, we run ordered logit models using Asian Barometer data from 2014. The results suggest that, apart from institutional and social capital factors, partisanship strongly influences trust in the president and courts. This implies that Mongolians’ perceptions of the justice system are informed by political preference, which partially originates in attempts to seize courts’ autonomy. © 2020 Informa UK Limited.
  • Activating responsible citizens: depoliticized environmentalism in hegemonic neoliberalism
    Item type: Journal Article
    Maxton-Lee, Bernice (2020)
    Democratization
  • Democracy promotion through functional cooperation?
    Item type: Journal Article
    Freyburg, Tina; Lavenex, Sandra; Schimmelfennig, Frank; et al. (2011)
    Democratization
  • The two sides of functional cooperation with authoritarian regimes
    Item type: Journal Article
    Freyburg, Tina (2012)
    Democratization
  • Democratic inclusiveness, climate policy outputs, and climate policy outcomes
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    Böhmelt, Tobias; Böker, Marit; Ward, Hugh (2016)
    Democratization
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