We review recent contributions to the modeling of democratic backsliding. We organize
these theories according to (a) the source of constraints on the executive (vertical or …

We study people's willingness to trade off civil liberties for increased health security in the
context of the COVID-19 pandemic by deploying representative surveys involving around …

Abstract European Political Science (EPS) has been a leading political science journal since
its launch in 2001. This article examines the contribution of European Political Science over …

We propose a theory of democratic backsliding where citizens' retrospective assessment of
an incumbent politician depends on expectations that are endogenous to the incumbent's …

Many, if not most, personalistic dictatorships end up with a disastrous decision such as
Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union, Hirohito's government launching a war against the United …

How does economic globalization affect regime support in non-democratic regimes? While
we know a lot about how globalization affects politics in democracies, we know only little …

Democratic stability hinges on voters' commitment to democratic norms, yet there are many
examples of voters' willingness to tolerate politicians who violate such principles. This article …

Repression and information manipulation are two main tools of any modern authoritarian
regime. Our theoretical model demonstrates how repression and propaganda complement …

We study a dynamic model in which a politician (most commonly an executive) makes
authority claims that are subject to a hard constraint (administered, typically, by a court). At …

Anti‐pluralist parties have come to power in democracies around the world. However, only a
subset of them have induced democratic backsliding while in government, raising the …