Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman on Democratic Backsliding

The way we conceive of democracy is being challenged by these regimes and, by that I mean, because the process of backsliding is so incremental, it's difficult to see where these boundaries are. Stephan Haggard A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of Backsliding: Democratic Regress in the Contemporary World here. Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman are the authors of the new book, Backsliding: Democratic Regress in the Contemporary World. Stephan...

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