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Learning to Watch
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 96

Learning to Watch

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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International Mediation in Venezuela
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 322

International Mediation in Venezuela

International Mediation in Venezuela analyzes the effort of the Carter Center and the broader international community to prevent violent conflict, to reconcile a deeply divided society, and to preserve democratic processes. From their perspective as facilitators of the intervention and as representatives of the Carter Center, Jennifer McCoy and Francisco Diez present an insider account of mediation at the national and international level.

The Unraveling of Representative Democracy in Venezuela
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 375

The Unraveling of Representative Democracy in Venezuela

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004-11-12
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

In this volume of essays, leading scholars from Venezuela and the United States ask why representative democracy in Venezuela unraveled so swiftly after 1992 and whether it can be restored.

Jennifer and Kevin McCoy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 107

Jennifer and Kevin McCoy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Resilience of Democracy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 221

Resilience of Democracy

Illiberalism and authoritarianism have become major threats to democracy across the world. In response to this development, research on the causes and processes of democratic declines has blossomed. Much less scholarly attention has been devoted to the issue of democratic resilience. Why are some democracies more resilient than others to the current trend of autocratization? What role do institutions, actors and structural factors play in this regard? What options do democratic actors have to address illiberal and authoritarian challenges? This book addresses all these questions. The present introduction sets the stage by developing a new concept of democratic resilience as the ability of a ...

Democratic Resilience
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 427

Democratic Resilience

This book examines how polarization threatens democracy and the sources of political and institutional resilience that can help sustain it.

Autocracy and Redistribution
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 371

Autocracy and Redistribution

This book shows that land redistribution - the most consequential form of redistribution in the developing world - occurs more often under dictatorship than democracy. It offers a novel theory of land reform and tests it using extensive original data dating back to 1900.

Handbook on Democracy and Security
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 389

Handbook on Democracy and Security

The Handbook on Democracy and Security offers an insightful new interpretation of the topic that reframes the contemporary challenge of democracy away from competing ideologies or external existential threats, and centres on the security of democracy in the minds and lived experience of its citizens.

Populism and Civil Society
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 321

Populism and Civil Society

Introduction -- Populism : why and why now? -- Populism as mobilization and as a party -- Populist governments and their logic -- Populism and constitutionalism -- Alternatives to populism.

The Authoritarian Divide
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 279

The Authoritarian Divide

In the context of the global decline of democracy, The Authoritarian Divide analyzes the tactics that populist leaders in Turkey, Venezuela, and Ecuador have used to polarize their countries. Political polarization is traditionally viewed as the result of competing left/right ideologies. In The Authoritarian Divide, Orçun Selçuk argues that, regardless of ideology, polarization is driven by dominant populist leaders who deliberately divide constituents by cultivating a dichotomy of inclusion and exclusion. This practice, known as affective leader polarization, stymies compromise and undermines the democratic process. Drawing on multiple qualitative and quantitative methodologies for support, as well as content from propaganda media such as public speeches, Muhtar Meetings, Aló Presidente, and Enlace Ciudadano, Selçuk details and analyzes the tactics used by three well-known populist leaders to fuel affective leader polarization: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Turkey, Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, and Rafael Correa in Ecuador. Selçuk’s work provides a rubric for a better understanding of—and potential defense against—the rise in polarizing populism across the globe.