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(The) backsliders : why leaders undermine their own democracies

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Data Type :	단행본
ISBN :	9780691271545
ISBN :	0691271542
ISBN :
Class No. :	JC423
Title/Author :	(The) backsliders : why leaders undermine their own democracies / Susan C. Stokes
Imprint :	Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2025
Format :	xviii, 239 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm
Note :	Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-231) and index
Content Note :	Introduction -- What Is Democratic Erosion? -- Part I. Economic and Political Contexts. What's behind the Wave of Democratic Erosion? -- The Right-Wing Ethnonationalists -- The Left-Wing Populists -- Part II. Backsliders and Voters. Polarization and Trash Talk: Theory -- Polarization and Trash Talk: Evidence -- Psychological Bases of Support for Backsliders -- Part III. Resistance and Repair. Strategies to Stop (and Reverse) Erosion -- References -- Index
요약 :	"Democracies around the world are getting swept up in a wave of democratic erosion. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, two dozen presidents and prime ministers have attacked their countries' democratic institutions, violating political norms, aggrandizing their own powers, and often trying to overstay their terms in office. The Backsliders offers the first general explanation for this wave. Drawing on a wealth of original research, Susan Stokes shows that increasing income inequality, a legacy of late twentieth-century globalization, left some countries especially at risk of backsliding toward autocracy. Left-behind voters were drawn to right-wing ethnonationalist leaders in countries like the United States, India, and Brazil, and to left-wing populist ones in countries like Venezuela, Mexico, and South Africa. Unlike military leaders who abruptly kill democracies in coups, elected leaders who erode them gradually must maintain some level of public support. They do so by encouraging polarization among citizens and also by trash-talking their democracies: claiming that the institutions they attack are corrupt and incompetent. They tell voters that these institutions should be torn down and replaced by ones under the executive's control. The Backsliders describes how journalists, judges, NGOs, and opposition leaders can put the brakes on democratic erosion, and how voters can do so through political engagement and the power of the ballot box." -- Book Jacket
General Subject Name :	Democracy --
General Subject Name :	Democracy -- Political aspects --
General Subject Name :	Polarization (Social sciences) -- Political aspects --
General Subject Name :	Démocratie locale. --
General Subject Name :	Démocratie locale -- Aspect politique. --
General Subject Name :	Polarisation collective -- Aspect politique. --
General Subject Name :	Comparative government --
General Subject Name :	Democracy --
General Subject Name :	Political leadership -- Moral and ethical aspects --
Personal Author :	Stokes, Susan Carol, author
Language	English