The Backsliders Why Leaders Undermine Their Own Democracies | 2.31 MB
Title: The Backsliders
Author: Susan C. Stokes
Category: Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, International, Foreign Legal Systems, Government, Democracy
Language: English | 264 Pages | ISBN: 0691271542
Description:
Why democracy is under assault across the globe by the leaders entrusted to preserve it
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…
Why democracy is under assault across the globe by the leaders entrusted to preserve it
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…
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