State of the world 2022: defiance in the face of autocratization

Wiebrecht, Felix; Sato, Yuko; Nord, Marina; Lundstedt, Martin; Angiolillo, Fabio; Lindberg, Staffan I.

doi:10.1080/13510347.2023.2199452

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“…Meanwhile China's active engagement in global governance and its massive Belt and Road initiative are building a worldwide network of political allies that could sideline democracies internationally. China's Global Development Initiative (2021), Global Security Initiative (2022 and Global Civilization Initiative (2023), are bold bids for leadership in world affairs, supported by a majority of nations. For peoples of Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America who experience western liberal democracy as exploitative, hypocritical, corrupt and sometimes violent, China's model offers a credible alternative.…”

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“…Finally, it is worth noting that China, the EU, and the US have rival models of global governance. While China and the US continue to build competing political alliances within the Westphalian model of sovereign states, the EU has developed a new model of transnational governance, described by Jaap Hoeksma in The Democratisation of the European Union (2023) (read summary), which the African Union seeks to emulated. Meanwhile, global integration through finance, trade, technology, and migration is still moving faster than our political systems can cope with.…”

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Can political science save democracy? Learning from models of civic and political education across the world

Alexander

2023

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This paper introduces the idea that institutions are social models (‘dynamic social theories’) in which political scientist need to work with practitioners to create better theories. Part I outlines threats to representative democracy and argues that much political science is like anatomy, analyzing the body politic without healing it, with notable exceptions. It suggests that health sciences offer alternative models for political science. Part 2 shows how institutions act as social models that combine everyday knowledge with research, and suggests that this insight offers political science a powerful approach to helping citizens understand and improve democratic governance. Part 3 uses Pippa Norris’s diagnosis of democratic deficits as a framework for identifying areas for action-research to strengthen democracy, then draws lessons from models of civic education at different levels. It concludes with a proposal for political scientists to launch a “global mission” to renew democracy at scale.

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Can political science save democracy? Learning from models of civic and political education across the world

Alexander

2023

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“…Freedom House opened its 2022 annual report by stating that "Global freedom faces a dire threat" (Repucci and Slipowitz 2022). The Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) 2023 annual report claimed that "The level of democracy enjoyed by the average global citizen in 2022 is down to 1986 levels" and "Advances in global levels of democracy made over the last 35 years have been wiped out" (Wiebrecht et al 2023). A substantial uptick in academic papers on democratic backsliding has emerged in recent years, which often raise alarm in the title: "Democratic Regress in the Contemporary World" (Haggard and Kaufman 2021) necessitates "Facing up to the Democratic Recession" (Diamond 2015) because "A Third Wave of Autocratization Is Here" (Lührmann and Lindberg 2019).…”

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Measuring Democratic Backsliding

Little,

Meng

2024

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Despite the general narrative that the world is in a period of democratic decline, there have been surprisingly few empirical studies that assess whether this is systematically true. Most existing studies of global backsliding are based largely if not entirely on subjective indicators that rely on expert coder judgment. Our study surveys objective indicators of democracy (e.g., incumbent performance in elections) and finds little evidence of global democratic decline during the past decade. To explain the discrepancy in trends between expert-coded and objective indicators, we consider the role of coder bias and leaders strategically using more subtle undemocratic action. Although we cannot rule out the possibility that the world is becoming less democratic exclusively in ways that require subjective judgment to detect, this claim is not justified by existing evidence.

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Revolutionary resistance against full autocratization. Actors and strategies of resistance after the 2021 military coup in Myanmar

Stokke,

Kyaw

2024

Political Geography

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State of the world 2022: defiance in the face of autocratization

Cited by 19 publications

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Can political science save democracy? Learning from models of civic and political education across the world

Can political science save democracy? Learning from models of civic and political education across the world

Measuring Democratic Backsliding

Revolutionary resistance against full autocratization. Actors and strategies of resistance after the 2021 military coup in Myanmar

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