Buch, Englisch, 370 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 453 g
Mapping the Unstable Equilibrium
Buch, Englisch, 370 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 453 g
Reihe: Routledge Research in Comparative Politics
ISBN: 978-1-032-84390-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
This book explores democratic fragility, an underdeveloped concept in the analyses of contemporary political regimes. Diagnoses of fragility commonly occur when states are brought to the brink of the abyss. Democracy and Its Fragility: Mapping the Unstable Equilibrium builds on the premise that fragility is an inherent trait of democracy that expresses its exposure to disintegration yet does not foretell its death.
Employing a novel conceptual lens that seeks to scrutinize the stability of contemporary democratic regimes across the world, the book offers a twofold contribution that provides new leverage for analysis. Theoretically, it refines the notion of fragility, making it a complementary variable to the latest research on robustness and resilience. Empirically, the volume engages with an overview of fragility indicators featured in indices mapping the quality of democracy and an assessment of their limitations. What follows are in-depth qualitative case studies zooming into the struggles for democratic regime maintenance and response to a variety of unfavourable conditions in 13 countries across Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Southern Europe and the Americas.
Addressing issues that are both conceptually advanced and highly accessible, Democracy and Its Fragility: Mapping the Unstable Equilibrium will attract academics and students of democracy studies, politics and government, and comparative politics.
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Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced
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Introduction: the ‘super-election’ year and the timeliness of democratic fragility. Chapter 1. Democracy: the contemporary understandings. Chapter 2. Democracy: a fragile notion. Chapter 3. A fool’s errand? Quantifying democratic fragility. Chapter 4. Declining press freedom as a source of democratic fragility in Japan. Chapter 5. Causes and sources of South Korea’s fragile democracy. Chapter 6. Screening Indian democratic fragility: the question of press freedom. Chapter 7. Fragility of post-conflict consociational democracies: Bosnia and Herzegovina and North Macedonia in the quest for democratic stability. Chapter 8. Black chronicle: criminal state capture and democratic fragility in Montenegro. Chapter 9. Endemic fragility? The case of consociational power-sharing in Lebanon. Chapter 10. Pressure from new churches and the fragility of Kenyan democracy. Chapter 11. Dwindling democratic dividends and democratic fragility in Nigeria. Chapter 12. Societal cracks expressed through la grieta. Political polarization and democratic fragility in Argentina. Chapter 13. Fake news and fragility. Bolsonaro and the Supreme Federal Court in the pendulum of Brazilian democracy. Chapter 14. Criminal governance and democratic fragility in Mexico. Chapter 15. Polarization, partisanship, and democratic fragility in the United States of America. Conclusions