Assaults on democracy are increasingly coming from the actions of duly elected
governments, rather than coups. Backsliding examines the processes through which elected …

How do duly elected rulers weaken checks on executive power, curtail civil and political
liberties, and undermine the integrity of the electoral process? Drawing on sixteen cases of …

Jason Brownlee and Kenny Miao deftly question widespread views about the connections
between democratic backsliding, democratic breakdown, and a global wave of …

Democratic backsliding (meaning the state-led debilitation or elimination of the political
institutions sustaining an existing democracy) has changed dramatically since the Cold War …

Scholars have paid increasing attention to democratic backsliding, yet efforts to explain this
phenomenon remain inchoate. This article seeks to place the study of democratic …

" In the past two decades, democratically elected executives across the world have used
their popularity to push for legislation that, over time, destroys systems of checks and …

This article introduces the concept of authoritarian backsliding as a class of strategies for the
concentration of incumbent political power in hybrid regimes. Such actions include …

ABSTRACT A growing literature examines democratic backsliding, but there is little
consensus on when, where, and why it occurs. Reviewing more than 100 recent articles and …

Since 1974, more than 90 countries have made transitions to democracy, and by the turn of
the century approximately 60 percent of the world's independent states were democratic …

In recent decades, prominent national leaders like Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and
Venezuela's Hugo Chávez gained power through democratic institutions, only to undermine …