Opposing Power

Ong, Elvin

doi:10.3998/mpub.12001520

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“…Contrarily, when opposition parties adopt moderate means, such as electoral coalitions, the cost of undemocratic actions increases for the incumbents, and democratic breakdown can be prevented (Cannon 2014;Laštro and Bieber 2021;Selçuk and Hekimci 2020;Wahman 2011). However, coordination problems (Wahman 2013) and failed ideological compromise (Ong 2022) among opposition parties often end up strengthening the incumbents.…”

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Civic Opposition and Democratic Backsliding: Mobilization Dynamics and Rapport with Political Parties

Yabanci

2024

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Democratic backsliding has posed significant challenges to democracies in many countries. Recent calls for a better theorization of pushback against backsliding have triggered renewed scholarly interest in the field of opposition and its role in stopping or reversing creeping authoritarian rule. This study calls for a theoretical and empirical recalibration of the concept of opposition to account for multifaceted ‘non-partisan’ actors and venues of oppositional mobilization. It proposes a new classification of resilient civic opposition. The explanatory typology is based on two factors: (1) the ability of civic opposition to bring multiple grievances together and to balance between on-street and off-street mediums, and (2) the rapport between political opposition parties and civic opposition. Four cases of civic opposition from Hungary and Turkey illustrate the proposed typology empirically.

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