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Authors:Rachel Beatty Riedl; Jennifer McCoy, Kenneth Roberts, Murat Somer Pages: 8 - 31 Abstract: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 712, Issue 1, Page 8-31, March 2024. We provide an analytical framework that identifies three distinct institutional pathways for democratic backsliding that culminate in executive aggrandizement: legislative capture, plebiscitary override, and executive power grabs. We also identify a ... Citation: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science PubDate: 2025-03-21T11:30:14Z DOI: 10.1177/00027162251319909 Issue No:Vol. 712, No. 1 (2025)
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Authors:Zsolt Enyedi; Bálint Mikola Pages: 34 - 46 Abstract: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 712, Issue 1, Page 34-46, March 2024. We discuss the case of Hungary’s rapid democratic backsliding under Viktor Orbán as an example of legislative capture. We show that, despite relatively unfavorable conditions for autocratization, Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party have supervised a well-... Citation: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science PubDate: 2025-03-21T11:30:14Z DOI: 10.1177/00027162241307778 Issue No:Vol. 712, No. 1 (2025)
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Authors:Filip Milačić Pages: 47 - 60 Abstract: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 712, Issue 1, Page 47-60, March 2024. Serbia’s democracy has been in a state of continuous erosion since the Serbian Progressive Party and Aleksandar Vučić came to power in 2012. Vučić exploited his popularity as a self-proclaimed defender of the Serbian nation to gain full control of the ... Citation: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science PubDate: 2025-03-21T11:30:14Z DOI: 10.1177/00027162251316346 Issue No:Vol. 712, No. 1 (2025)
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Authors:Milan Vaishnav Pages: 61 - 76 Abstract: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 712, Issue 1, Page 61-76, March 2024. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won consecutive parliamentary majorities in India’s 2014 and 2019 elections, ushering in a period of single-party dominance that has replaced a quarter-century of coalition politics. This new era has been marked by a ... Citation: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science PubDate: 2025-03-21T11:30:14Z DOI: 10.1177/00027162241307742 Issue No:Vol. 712, No. 1 (2025)
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Authors:Murat Somer Pages: 77 - 92 Abstract: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 712, Issue 1, Page 77-92, March 2024. Since 2002, governments led by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his party have taken Turkey’s political regime from electoral democracy to electoral autocracy. This has been principally accomplished through legislative capture: control, abuse, and weaponization ... Citation: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science PubDate: 2025-03-21T11:30:14Z DOI: 10.1177/00027162251318839 Issue No:Vol. 712, No. 1 (2025)
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Authors:Ion Marandici Pages: 93 - 108 Abstract: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 712, Issue 1, Page 93-108, March 2024. I examine two pathways of democratic backsliding in Moldova and the ways in which the country was able to reverse the backsliding trends. The first episode (2001–2009) started with a political party gaining a supermajority in Parliament and setting up a ... Citation: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science PubDate: 2025-03-21T11:30:14Z DOI: 10.1177/00027162241307749 Issue No:Vol. 712, No. 1 (2025)
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Authors:Hubert Tworzecki Pages: 109 - 121 Abstract: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 712, Issue 1, Page 109-121, March 2024. “Democratic careening” aptly captures Poland’s recent oscillation between liberal democracy, illiberalism, and efforts toward the recovery of liberal democratic norms. In contrast to the recent experience of Hungary, Poland’s hard right governing party ... Citation: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science PubDate: 2025-03-21T11:30:14Z DOI: 10.1177/00027162241307748 Issue No:Vol. 712, No. 1 (2025)
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Authors:Laura Gamboa Pages: 124 - 136 Abstract: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 712, Issue 1, Page 124-136, March 2024. Until the 1990s, Venezuela had one of the longest-running democracies in Latin America. Today it is one of the region’s most entrenched authoritarian regimes. I discuss Venezuela’s 25-year autocratization process, focusing on the contingent nature of ... Citation: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science PubDate: 2025-03-21T11:30:14Z DOI: 10.1177/00027162241309709 Issue No:Vol. 712, No. 1 (2025)
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Authors:Paolo Moncagatta; Mateo Pazmiño Pages: 137 - 151 Abstract: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 712, Issue 1, Page 137-151, March 2024. Ecuador experienced a dramatic process of democratic backsliding during Rafael Correa’s decade-long administration, which began in 2007. The Correa administration brought plebiscitary overrides and constitutional reengineering that made the government a ... Citation: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science PubDate: 2025-03-21T11:30:14Z DOI: 10.1177/00027162241312518 Issue No:Vol. 712, No. 1 (2025)
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Authors:Alexandra Domike Blackman Pages: 154 - 168 Abstract: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 712, Issue 1, Page 154-168, March 2024. Kais Saied’s July 2021 power grab in Tunisia is a clear case of democratic backsliding, and the nation’s judiciary, political parties, and civil society organizations have been unable to slow the democratic erosion that is occurring under the Saied ... Citation: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science PubDate: 2025-03-21T11:30:14Z DOI: 10.1177/00027162241310157 Issue No:Vol. 712, No. 1 (2025)
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Authors:Matias Spektor Pages: 169 - 181 Abstract: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 712, Issue 1, Page 169-181, March 2024. This case study explores democratic backsliding in Brazil that was accompanied by Jair Bolsonaro’s rise to power and his push for autocratization. Bolsonaro’s presidency was characterized by systematic attacks on democratic institutions, including efforts ... Citation: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science PubDate: 2025-03-21T11:30:14Z DOI: 10.1177/00027162241309487 Issue No:Vol. 712, No. 1 (2025)
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Authors:Kim Yi Dionne; Boniface Dulani Pages: 182 - 194 Abstract: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 712, Issue 1, Page 182-194, March 2024. We examine how Malawi’s presidents have attempted to undermine the nation’s democracy between 2000 and 2022, analyzing the ways in which key institutions and actors have resisted executive overreach and power grabs. After a long history of authoritarian ... Citation: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science PubDate: 2025-03-21T11:30:14Z DOI: 10.1177/00027162241311429 Issue No:Vol. 712, No. 1 (2025)
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Authors:Shelley A. McConnell Pages: 196 - 210 Abstract: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 712, Issue 1, Page 196-210, March 2024. Nicaragua has followed an unusual path from democracy to authoritarianism. In 2000, despite deep political polarization, outgoing Liberal president Arnoldo Alemán colluded with opposition leader Daniel Ortega to convert politically neutral judicial and ... Citation: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science PubDate: 2025-03-21T11:30:14Z DOI: 10.1177/00027162251320222 Issue No:Vol. 712, No. 1 (2025)
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Authors:Dominika Koter Pages: 211 - 222 Abstract: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 712, Issue 1, Page 211-222, March 2024. After 25 years of successful experience with democracy, Benin entered a phase of democratic backsliding after President Patrice Talon came to power in 2016. According to multiple measures, Benin’s democracy declined continuously between 2016 and 2023. ... Citation: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science PubDate: 2025-03-21T11:30:14Z DOI: 10.1177/00027162241309423 Issue No:Vol. 712, No. 1 (2025)
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Authors:Marcus Mietzner Pages: 223 - 234 Abstract: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 712, Issue 1, Page 223-234, March 2024. After a largely successful post-authoritarian transition, Indonesia has experienced democratic backsliding since the 2010s. This backsliding accelerated under the presidency of Joko Widodo (2014-2024), but it has not yet pushed the Indonesian polity into ... Citation: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science PubDate: 2025-03-21T11:30:14Z DOI: 10.1177/00027162241309436 Issue No:Vol. 712, No. 1 (2025)
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Authors:Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez; Lucas Perelló Pages: 235 - 247 Abstract: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 712, Issue 1, Page 235-247, March 2024. Guatemala is a case study in democratic backsliding led not by an aggrandized executive, but by a coalition of elites who collude to maximize and protect their collective power. Beginning in the mid-2010s, a decentralized but deeply entrenched network of ... Citation: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science PubDate: 2025-03-21T11:30:14Z DOI: 10.1177/00027162251319179 Issue No:Vol. 712, No. 1 (2025)
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Authors:Thomas Carothers Pages: 250 - 257 Abstract: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 712, Issue 1, Page 250-257, March 2024. International policymakers and those who provide assistance for the development and stabilization of democracies worldwide have often been slow to recognize and respond to democratic backsliding. Drawing from the case studies in this volume, I identify a ... Citation: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science PubDate: 2025-03-21T11:30:14Z DOI: 10.1177/00027162251316344 Issue No:Vol. 712, No. 1 (2025)