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Series:   Elements in Political Economy

Democracy in Trouble

Democratic Resilience and Breakdown from 1900 to 2022

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 December 2024

Myles Williamson ,
Christopher Akor  and
Amanda B. Edgell
Myles Williamson
Affiliation:
University of Alabama
Christopher Akor
Affiliation:
University of Alabama
Amanda B. Edgell
Affiliation:
University of Alabama

Summary

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.
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democratic resiliencedemocratic backslidingexecutive aggrandizementdemocratic breakdowndemocratic survival
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Series: Elements in Political Economy
Online ISBN: 9781009462181
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication: 16 January 2025

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